From: “Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different” (Tullian Tchividjian)
“For a long time now, I’ve been convinced that what happens in New York (finance), Hollywood (entertainment), Silicon Valley (technology), and Miami (fashion) has a far greater impact on how our culture thinks about reality than what happens in Washington DC (politics). It’s superimportant for us to understand that politics are reflective, not directive. That is, the political arena is the place where policies are made that reflect the values of our culture – the habits of heart and mind – that are being shaped by these other, more strategic arenas. As the Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher said, “Let me write the songs of a nation; I don’t care who writes its laws.”
