Daring to Dream

daring to dream

David Cameron suggests that there is no going back from Scottish independence. OK. But who would want to go back to the past?

All kind of futures are now possible. A space has been opened up for politics as unusual. As the song says, “You gotta have a dream, cause if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna  make a dream come true”.

Note that Martin Luther King proclaimed, “I have a dream” and not “I have a detailed action plan”.

And Rabbie hit the nail on the heed during the Scottish Enlightenment

Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.

And, more recently John Lennon had his big think –

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

What might things be like after another 300 years?

Who dares to dream?