I like your treatment of this Melissa Chu. Which is the idea of being at once the skeptic or biting cynic, but combined with the act of doing. The action.

It is clear that too often these days we bitch and moan about things and piss on each other. But where are the ideas? But not so much mere ideas or ideals as the practical recommendations on how to bring about positive change and improvement. The doing.

You’re also depicting how one person made a difference. And this, without the internet. Perhaps he was introduced to the shakers and movers of the day because of his family or his connections. Well, if that’s what it takes, then who among the 99% can be similarly introduced, with an effect of turning things upside down? Voltaire did.