To innovate or not innovate, that is the question. Which offers more risks? Should we define a risk as that which is more likely to create more of the same, or that which is more likely to create differences?
The more we realize impermanence, the more we're apt to define risk as creating differences. This is the issue we're having in many civic spaces. The old money is protected by the progency of innovators who lack passion for innovation. They view risk as potential danger to sameness. They have little to say in conversations with innovators, if they entertain these kinds of conversations at all.
Innovators need to partner with other innovators and seek out the new money funders who get it.
