Feb 20 2011: You can be pushed to leave your comfort zone by being laid off, for example. That should provide you with a wider scope of reality, although one may try to look for something to restore that comfort zone instead of looking for a better, new one. Being critical with one's points of view also helps. If your thoughts are in a continuous crisis you should be able to move from your comfort zone or, rather, make it wider.
Feb 20 2011: I don't think so. In my opinion they are more of a catalyser rather than anything else. They ar eplaying a key role in these revolutions, but because they are the ones which have given the power back to the user. And that is what they want from their political leaders; to have their power restored back to the people. However, political elites should be warned of these movements even in so-considered democratic countries, where access to power is often limited to the political oligarchy.
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