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Rob Kall's Vision: A Transcript of His Interview With Envision This!

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H2: mmhmm

R: They did it in Egypt. Now they have problems there, they got a military that is, is, is bad news but and, and that's part of the p-challenge. It's not like you can dismantle all of the top down systems. It's going to be difficult, it's going to be hard to - to do this but people can do it and we're seeing it happen and there's a meme. Bottom Up is a meme that is spreading to our culture that is literally changing the way young people's brains work.

H1: mhmm

R: I just did an interview with Howard Gardner, the developer of the concept of Multiple Intelligences and he has a new book out called, App Generation, because he believes that young people are starting to think in terms of apps.

H2: mmhmm

R: And that could be scary and it could be a problem but we're seeing the biggest businesses in the world now being built upon Bottom Up technologies. iPhones would not be as big as they were without text messaging and email and Google and Facebook and Twitter-- those are all Bottom Up technologies -

H1: mhhmm

R: that are fueling this huge new realm of business and all of that is changing the world in some very powerful ways. And, to me, what I hope to see is massive changes-- Massive changes in economics and the way we live.I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I'm an Independent.

H2: mhmm

H1: mhmm

R: my favorite member of Congress is Bernie Sanders, he's a socialist.

H2: [laughs]

R: Socialism is kind of a, a word that that gets beat up pretty bad but the idea of everybody taking care of each other is something that's been around for millions of years for humans and their predecessors.

H2: [laughs]

R: and I think that's something to be proud to be into. This idea that everybody is for themselves and it's a jungle out there and a dog-eat-dog world, I think that that is a new concept that developed more recently. This Ayn Rand idea of Libertarian approaches is to me somewhere between narcissistic, and sociopath, and

H2: [laughs]

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