Henry Tam
Next time you hear people talking about the social change that must be brought about, or some new reform agenda they are developing, ask them this: will it lead to a redistribution of power so that the gap between the powerful and the powerless is significantly reduced?
Anyone who claims that people should just be left alone as they are to interact with others sensibly and responsibly, and all would be for the best of all possible worlds, is either remarkably naïve or deviously misleading. If history has one consistent message for us, it is that genuine cooperation and mutual respect only flourish if none is so powerful as to be able to dominate others, and no one is so weak as to be at the arbitrary mercy of the rest.
So if we really want to release people’s potential to collaborate for the good of all, we have to target any concentration of power and press for a more balanced redistribution.
