[The_Rorschach]

Well, to be quite honest Bennet, I believe Ford did what he did to impliment a new economic niche. Through his acts, he managed to create a middle class with more disposable income and more leisure time with which to spend their hard earned wages. It was fairly symbiotic situation in my opinion, and as he, much like many of his affluent peers, came from a non-aristocratic background, I feel to a certain extent he did so without entirely parasitic intent.

In any case, the point I was trying to make in all this was that the citizen has more power to impliment change through means existing outside the government, than the government inherently has a right to do by its own accord. Neither of us got very far, my associate is of the 'big government' camp of thinking, while I tend towards the exact opposite spectrum and in the end we agreed to disagree.

I was asking for Kevin's help because, while I can cite historical examples of single citizens inspiring drastic changes in society, the argument I was working against was concering future implication: The ability for a single citizen to bring about change has both become easier, through full-spectrum communication, but more difficult as collective society seems to have an inherent attention defecit disorder. He felt that the only way true change can come about, in a future context, would be through the government. I, more from hope than pure reasoning, disagree vehemently.