Heroes Not Zombies

Charles Handy wrote ‘The Empty Raincoat‘ in 1994. Strange title, huh? It refers to a sculpture he saw – ‘Without Words‘ by Judith Shea.

I canot forget a sculpture I saw….’Without Words’ by Judith Shea……a bronze raincoat, standing upright, but empty, with no-one inside it. We were not destined to be empty raincoats, nameless numbers on a payroll, role occupants, the raw material of economics or sociology, statistics in some government report. If that is to be its price, then economic progress is an empty promise. There must be more to life than to be a cog in someone else’s machine.

We shouldn’t be zombies, we should be heroes.