Showing posts with label Intellectuals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intellectuals. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2012

Story makers: Intellectuals in society


[Note: This is a response to Patricia Evangelista's article "Once upon a time" in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (6/2/2012), which I wrote as a rejoinder to the comment of my friend, tgm_erick, to Ms. Patricia. This is raw and I will edit and/or enhance it later on. Thanks. --jsalvador]


Jose Rizal
My friend, I always read Patricia's column but I seldom comment on her articles.

She wrote: "[The young people] are storytellers, all of them, and most of them still believe that a story can change the world. I don’t, but I believe maybe, if we’re lucky, we can change a life."

I agree with her. Our world is not shaped by storytellers but by story makers (idea workers) who can motivate people to act.