The challenge will be to fulfill and expand them, despite the day-to-day emergencies and distractions that tend to blur and constrict worthy visions over the long term.
Mr. Patrelle sets up an Agatha Christie-worthy vision of tuxedoed men and white-satin-draped women wandering about with martinis and cigarettes aloft.
That's a mighty goal worthy of a Vision Fund, but its vision may turn out to be a fever dream if the indicators are right and the worldwide slide into recession finally happens.
If the objectives cover infrastructure and humanitarian endeavors as well as political and military objectives, then we shall see a vision worthy of support.
Any unity worthy of this vision cannot be identified with political or spiritual coercion, strategies of dominance or superiority, calls for "a return to the mother church," or expectations of monolithic uniformity or a super-church.
With gas prices averaging $4 a gallon, presidential talk of invading our strategic petroleum reserves and the specter of yet another Mideast war, we need a vision worthy of this new century, not the 1950s.
A prodigiously gifted manipulator of men and the news media, Chávez used his carefully cultivated dominance of Venezuela's airwaves — as well as torrents of petrodollars — to win over the masses and stage "what he called the Bolivarian revolution, a self-styled radical effort to transform state and society into a vision worthy of Bolívar, a beacon of democracy, socialism and enlightenment".
Indeed, there is a powerful sense of theft here, that this regime and its cronies not only stole wealth, but they stole something so much more precious: the future of an entire generation of Egyptians, whom they refused to empower or offer any inspiring vision worthy of this great civilization.
In doing so it has acquired the ingredients for an exceedingly odd network party: imagine, gathered around the punch bowl, Adrian Monk, obsessively lining up the spoons; David Creegan, wearing his socks over his shoes; and Johnny Smith Anthony Michael Halll) from "The Dead Zone," having a psychic vision worthy of a Stephen King novel, which is where that character began.
A lofty vision, worthy of editors!
