Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?) - Seth Godin

The problem is that individual passion is hard to scale—hard to fit into the
industrial model. It’s not reliably ignited. It’s certainly harder to create for large
masses of people. Sure, it’s easy to get a convention center filled with delegates to
chant for a candidate, and easier still to engage the masses at Wembley Stadium,
but the passion that fuels dreams and creates change must come from the
individual, not from a demigod.
30. The industrial age pervaded all of our culture
There has been no bigger change in ten thousand years of recorded human
history than the overwhelming transformation of society and commerce and
health and civilization that was enabled (or caused) by industrialization.
We’re so surrounded by it that it seems normal and permanent and preordained,
but we need to lay it out in stark relief to see how it has created the world we live
in.
In just a few generations, society went from agrarian and distributed to corporatized
and centralized. In order to overhaul the planet, a bunch of things had to
work in concert:
Infrastructure changes, including paving the earth, laying pipe, building cities,
wiring countries for communication, etc.