Opinion

Editor’s Column: Collective energy

Imagine a house on fire. 

Now imagine the residents of the house standing in the living room, surrounded by flames, having a heated argument about whose fault it is that the house is burning. 

Seems strange, right? And yet we do it every day. 

We spend an inordinate amount of time and energy fixated on the cause of society’s woes and not nearly enough on solutions. It doesn’t matter if the problem is “who forgot…