At the risk of saying something provocative, I’m going to suggest that there is an elephant in the room here…What I’ve heard so far, not from anybody in particular is … that we are using the term ‘vision’ when we actually mean ‘plan’.
I think it’s the new buzzword for the plan. What I’m hearing is something that is ‘social marketing’… It sounds (this is how I feel) … top-down … it sounds ‘promulgated’; it sounds like it has rational and alienating technical language attached to it.
And it doesn’t seem to be anything about a dream that was dreamed by the community or parts of the community.
Martin Luther King did not say, ‘I have a strategic vision’. He said, ‘I have a dream’.