Occupy and our role as well-educated, privileged culture-leaders

So many of my friends are super-smart, well-educated -- if "privileged" isn't the right word, then maybe educationally "fortunate." I want to say to all of them -- to us -- what I said to a few such friends earlier today:

"Let's folks like us put our heads together to improve our great nation. That's all I'm sayin'. In many respects, especially education, we're the 1%. As such, it's our duty to our country to share good information, to develop smart solutions and to take a bit of time to advocate them. This isn't like a campaign season, where we do our duty by saying Yes to some guy's platform. This is a grassroots-movement season -- a sea-change season -- and as such it's as close as we ever get to the direct democracy that's the gleam in the eye of our representative republic. It's amazing. It's a big deal. It's not business as usual. So whatever side of the fence you're on, let's put aside our normal knee-jerk reactions, put on our thinking caps and step up to the plate. Friends, our country's calling us -- truly asking us, for the first time in our lives, for wise guidance. Let's answer."