Comments on: Awesome Book Alert – The Blue Sweater http://www.hallicious.com/2009/07/awesome-book-alert-the-blue-sweater/ more bounce to the ounce Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ross G. Bielanski http://www.hallicious.com/2009/07/awesome-book-alert-the-blue-sweater/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Ross G. Bielanski Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:26:02 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=270#comment-214 Perspective. Perspective. Perspective. What a world we live in. At times I want to jump up with excitement and joyous revelry at the wonders. At other times I want to cringe my head and move my body into the fetal position.... as if I have no control. This is a deep heavy book about the economically, socially, and spiritually intrerconnected world we live in. (the later is not touched on really heavily in the book, but I somehow think it works through karma and good will.) The author, Jacqueline Novogratz is quite inspiring; leaving her banking work and devoting all her time to instilling values of self-sufficiency into African nations that really need it. The greatest fear I see in all of this however is a movement of globalization where all differences are broken down and money is the key movement of all essence of society. To me, that would be sad. Maybe that is absolute capitalism, I don't know. Maybe I am just a hater of big chains like McDonalds and Walmart and I believe in locals solving their own problems and building upon their own resources. This book was a realization that we are way past that time... or at least the walls are coming down. We can approach it all how we choose. All in all, despite some of my fears, the Acumen Fund is a wonderful project. I encourage everyone to read this book as it will add some good global perspective to your world-view. Who wants this copy? It is my duty to pass it on. I will mail it on to the first person who emails me with an address. rossg1977@gmail.com Ross Perspective. Perspective. Perspective. What a world we live in. At times I want to jump up with excitement and joyous revelry at the wonders. At other times I want to cringe my head and move my body into the fetal position…. as if I have no control. This is a deep heavy book about the economically, socially, and spiritually intrerconnected world we live in. (the later is not touched on really heavily in the book, but I somehow think it works through karma and good will.) The author, Jacqueline Novogratz is quite inspiring; leaving her banking work and devoting all her time to instilling values of self-sufficiency into African nations that really need it.

The greatest fear I see in all of this however is a movement of globalization where all differences are broken down and money is the key movement of all essence of society. To me, that would be sad. Maybe that is absolute capitalism, I don’t know. Maybe I am just a hater of big chains like McDonalds and Walmart and I believe in locals solving their own problems and building upon their own resources. This book was a realization that we are way past that time… or at least the walls are coming down. We can approach it all how we choose.

All in all, despite some of my fears, the Acumen Fund is a wonderful project. I encourage everyone to read this book as it will add some good global perspective to your world-view. Who wants this copy? It is my duty to pass it on. I will mail it on to the first person who emails me with an address. rossg1977@gmail.com

Ross

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