Someone else's words are prettier

“ The nature of human society will change more in the next few decades than we can imagine today, and that change will turn the social order topsy-turvy in a way we haven’t seen in 200 or perhaps 500 years. When I left the US in 2006 and came to Argentina, I said, “I am leaving because the US is the past, but Argentina is the future,” which is more evident now than then. How we accommodate these inevitable changes can make our new social order is more just or more oppressive. Nobody understands the changes very well, but I understand them as well as anyone, and much better than almost everyone.

So, beginning this year, I take active part in these changes again, weaker in some ways but much stronger in others.

Others cannot write the essays I am to write, as I cannot write the essays others are to write. Others cannot discover and make what I am to discover and make, as I cannot discover and make the things they are to discover and make. Others cannot unite the people I can unite, as I cannot unite the people others can unite. ”