Changing the world?

A very interesting friend from the future asked me a question about how I would like to change the world; and these lines that I'd read in one of my readings came to mind...

"We have gone from societies of a century ago with the evils of fear, insecurity, ignorance, malnutrition, and low life expectancy to our present societies in the richer countries with the evils, on the personal level, of lack of self-reliance, self-respect, ambition, and hope and, on the social level, of inefficient and costly central government and the undermining of valuable intermediate social institutions. There is no doubt that, with the best of intentions, we have cured one set of ills and produced another.
But that is hardly new; this is the nature of social change.
The sensible response to it is not to prevent change but to admit to the new ills as they appear and to try to cure them. The cures will in turn produce their own new ills, and so on forever."

~ James Griffin


To be honest, I've been mulling over whether I want to change anything at all, after reading this piece. My mind seems jumbled with contradictions and confusion.
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But my friend, Malhar always said that change is the only constant.

... And thinking of him now, I am inspired to begin :)
One shall never know until one does or tries the real thing oneself; of this I am certain.