The movers and shakers of our world operate at all levels and influence all aspects of our lives. They shaped our past, they direct our present and will drive our future. Their names and faces will changes but their role will be the same. The expression was introduced by a poem written by Arthur O’Shaughnessy, called ‚Ode‘, late in the nineteenth century and was subsequently set to music by Sir Edward Elgar, who felt deeply moved by the lyric.
We happily let the chosen few decide what fashions we wear, what cars we drive and what brand of cereal we eat. They decide to whom we send our tax dollars in the form foreign aid. They decide with whom we go to war. They shift our shipyards and close our coal mines. Nuclear is cleaner.
Movers and shakers negotiate amongst themselves to decide when it’s time to desert MySpace and manage our social lives on Facebook an Twitter. They are behind our decisions to conduct our lies on our mobile phones, laptop computers or tablets. They work behind the scenes to let us buy a pizza over the internet and stream our favorite television programs onto our digital screens.
Today’s top celebrity chef can revolutionize the lunches that are served in schools, sparing tomorrow’s generation the perils of obesity. With a single casual remark, they can launch a humble saucepan out of obscurity and onto the national consciousness. We grill, fry steam and nuke at their command.
Our productivity gurus can have us all multi-tasking one day. The next day, we discover this is bad for us. We should be focusing our energy on one thing at a time and doing it well. Do we power through our lunch hour with a diet soft drink and a sandwich. The three-martini lunch has gone the way of the dinosaurs.
And my oh my, don’t they love telling us what to eat! Carbohydrates are essential for proper nerve function. No, wait! We haven’t evolved the genes to digest gluten. Let’s go back to the Stone Age and just eat lean meats, fish, fruits and vegetables. We’ve only just developed the ability to digest lactose, the primary sugar in dairy products.
Movers and shakers affect every aspect of our lives. They determine what we watch on television, what our children learn in school, what they wear to school and how they spend their time when they have finished going to school. They play a role in deciding where to build schools and where to close them, thereby determining where our children go to school. It’s the same with hospitals, supermarkets and libraries.
However much they may move and shake the things that reach into every corner of our lives, those of us who are moved and shaken by them are not helpless pawns. We vote the way we choose, we spend our money as we see fit and we let them get on with it. When they move or shake something that displeases us, they can be Tweeted off the playing field and replaced with the next movers or shakers in waiting.
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