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Saturday, 14 January 2012

My favorite prophet.


It is very easy to conclude that the whole world is evil. Even the good merely tinker about the edges, improving one tiny area while the whole world carries on as it always has. They think that really changing the world seems too hard. But some people do it anyway. People like Hans Rosling. I could listen to him forever. I would not be terribly surprised if there were only five or ten truly good people in the world, people who devote their lives to doping the most good they can possibly do. But Hans Rosling is one of them.

He is the greatest teacher I have ever seen. He devotes his life to what is most important: saving the world, particularly for the poor. His teachings encompasses all of human life. He explodes myths, he opens eyes, he inspires. He shows us the future, with considerable accuracy, and he shows us how to create heaven on earth.

I didn't realize until I wrote that last sentence (this post originally had a different title)., but Hans Rosling is the greatest prophet I have ever seen.

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