Speaker A Maybe one of the unique perspectives that I might bring to the table is my experience with nonprofit and then with for profit and my experience in nonprofit, which led me to the government, which led me to nonprofit, not only social work agencies, but involvements within church, involvements within government and through all of that experience. I think that one of the most powerful things with requisite organization is that it's just not for big business, it's for small business, and it's for all of these attributes of society education, social work, government. There are hundreds and hundreds of examples of school districts needing to partner with police departments, school districts needing to partner with community parks and recreation to bring healthier students that have more, regardless of the athletic ability, have a chance to become healthy through exercise, and the list goes on and on and on. The fact that we imprison many people who need mental health care, for example, and that we haven't as a society found an alternative to the old state hospitals that influences our prison system, our homeless organizations, our police stations. And what I began to see is more and more of a need for people of higher stratums in board levels to begin to challenge a new level of thought, a new level of cognitive capability that all of these entities can be working together. Even simple things like why is a school district building only used nine months out of the year? Why is a library not at the school? Why are a performing arts center not at a school? Why are there exercise facilities that are not at the school? Why are we segmenting all of these within the american culture, at least segmenting all of these out into different buildings, into different areas and all of that type of thought, and you take that into thinking of time span and thinking of the energy cris that we have. All of these things all scream out and cry for the attention of higher strata leadership at the top that can develop the systems and change how our community exists. I think it's pretty exciting to see that come through and see that through education that we can become to that level. I never really thought about what were the challenges that democracy had in its short existence of 200 plus years. If I were to look at there have been different challenges, certainly that democracy has faced. In the early days, it was certainly the balance of power and property ownership by citizens. These were all very important matters with regards to democracy. And then maybe going through and looking at moving from an agricultural society to an industrial and how do we treat labor. And that was a pretty big issue for the democracy. I think. In my opinion, over the next 50 to 100 years, the big test of democracy will be is now that we've created huge governmental institutions not only on a federal, but a local and state level. And democracy has its own system of electing, which is wonderful, but it can allow, especially on local and state levels, for people of lowest stratas to come in and manage 300, 500 million dollar companies called local government. And one of the big tests for democracy, I think, over the next 50 to 100 years will be is can we get the strata leadership necessary to lead those institutions? And I think that'll be as big a test as was the labor movement, as was the Civil War. That may be just as big a test on democracy for the next century. In Sam.
