REEP

I just finished Joshua Cooper Ramo’s alarmingly insightful bestseller, The Age of the Unthinkable.  Within his text, Ramo artfully unravels a large portion of our ideology and methodology in the arenas of foreign affairs and global economics.  As an educator and advocate, I am often prone to disdainfully approach this sort of heady discourse as platitudinous—luxurious dialogue afforded those intellectuals who have not muddied their boots in the developing world—great ideas with little impact other than to generate consulting opportunities for their exponents.  Despite my cynical starting point, the book proved to be a sincerely sobering work and without question, a watershed text for those seeking to exact sustainable impact in a radically shifting world.

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