While President Obama asks Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to address a tiny fraction of the symptoms of this problem, it is irrational to reject much more economical investments that could cure the illness by addressing the causes.
Thanks to globalization and the Internet, the “cambio que necesitamos”—the change we need—and the “sÃ, se puede”—yes, we can—have become contagious throughout the planet in a way that borders on idolatry.
Glass's apogee ends in an empty, snowy valley where the goal he wanted to fulfill suddenly loses any meaning to him. He knows that he has lost to the wildness.