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"In a world of big change, we are surrounded by some very small minds!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

There are still some people fighting the battles of 2024, the issues of 2022, the world of 2020, the realities of 2018.

It's 2026.

Everything has changed.

What happens in a time of big change is that the small minds refuse to let go of where they were, and find it impossible to go to where the rest of the world is going.

They struggle to comprehend the new order of the world because they are still raging about the old one.

They can't let go of their desire to go back to where they think we should be going, rather than going to where the rest of us are going.

They're a tiresome bunch, aren't they!

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Futurist Jim Carroll knows that everything has changed in the last week.

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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-it-a-world-of-big-change-we-are-surrounded-by-some-very-small-minds/

@eivind @tayfonay Came here to say exactly that! #SmallMinds #FoolsSeldom 🤪👍

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

🟢 Eleanor Roosevelt didn't really say this.

🟢 There's no hierarchy of mind quality. Everybody's mind is different but no one's is better than anyone else's. Would you switch minds with anyone? Probably not. OK then, how could theirs be better? If theirs isn't better probably yours isn't either.*

🟢 Talking about people is extremely important. Talking about one another makes human existence possible. People in society, organizations, neighborhoods, families, talk about each other constantly. Who's an asshole, who's a pleasure to work with, who's reliable, who's a flake, who's a sexual predator, who can be trusted, who's a snitch, and so on. Without sharing information about the people involved all human organization would fail and we'd all be weaker and alone. Also this kind of good gossip strengthens human groups by building emotional ties between people. Sure gossip is potentially harmful, but what human activity is not?

🟢 Talking about events is essential. How else are we going to know what people are up to and how they act in different situations? Without talking about events we can't talk about people, and talking about people is really important!

🟢 Talking about ideas is the least important of the three and the most potentially harmful. Logic, rationality, abstraction, these can be useful and enjoyable, sure, but unless they're grounded in a solid commitment to the fact that concrete truth about actual people is more important than any idea they are also dangerous traps that can be used to justify anything. It's astonishing how effectively people can confuse themselves and others with ideas.

🟢 This quote is dangerous propaganda. Don't fall for it!

🟢 Yes, I admit I'm being extreme for rhetorical effect.

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* This argument is the only thing I agree with Thomas Hobbes about.

#EleanorRoosevelt #GreatMinds #AverageMinds #SmallMinds #Gossip #ThomasHobbes

I read an article printed a little while ago in the newspaper of the town where I was born and raised (and got the hell out) - lamenting that the kids are moving away, and how to stop it.
Don't be bigoted and hateful? Offer livable wages? Stop sneering at everything that didn't exist when your grandpa was a kid?
Just some ideas.

#SmallTowns #SmallMinds