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Ah, the wonderful world of talk. Let’s get everyone in the room and just sit down and talk about it, and we’ll fix it! No, we won’t. Jonathan Sacks just wrote a book that deals with this, The Home We Build Together. He writes about having 60 years of talking that’s led to little. He says we should keep talking BUT a better way, instead of face-to-face, person-to-person, is side-by-side sweating. It’s what I’ve been saying for at least the past ten years. Once we’ve sweated together, then we’re ready to talk. Talk without sweat is fruitless. How do we change the world? How do we turn it upside down in a positive way? What are the biggest headaches we face in the world that we can’t solve alone? We should partner with people of different race, faith, culture who are also affected by that same problem and tackle it. It opens lines of communications. It solves problems. This is the problem with diplomacy--it’s too much talk! Sacks says the reason Judaism survived is because they didn’t have a utopian view of the world, but a realist view. It forced Jews to integrate wherever they went, yet, still keep their culture. I like Jonathan Sacks.  If you’re reading my blog, you da’ man. OK, Jonathan, what do you want to do together--AND, let’s do it with some Muslims,---Christian, Jew, Muslim, and we could even sprinkle in some Buddhists and Hindus.  I have several friends in that camp. An atheist or two might be good to totally confuse? What say ye?