Ed Feulner Talks at Sutherland
It is always great to listen to really smart people. Sometimes when you get into the grind at work, you forget how good it feels to stretch the mind. I think it’s one of the things I miss most about MBA school, that being bombarded with new ideas and new concepts.
Anyway, Ed Feulner, a co-founder and current president of Heritage Foundation, spoke at Sutherland Institute today. The guy is amazing in his ability to absorb information. He was in AZ yesterday speaking to a group, and tomorrow he heads to Los Angeles to make another speech tomorrow, and yet he was completely up to speed on what Sutherland was engaged in and knew all those involved with the institute.
With respect to his remarks, I think the one that stuck out the most was the need for “intermediate” institutions to help foster civil society: family, church, schools, and of course my favorite, local policy organizations. Our recent trend in Utah and across the nation is to weaken these intermediate institutions and solely rely on the state, which ultimately give us the all the bad government we deserve. Let’s push our legislators and local elected officials to push legislation that puts decision making back in the hands of “we the people” and our intermediate institutions.
