Excellent post. I always love how you include fantastic original photography as well.

What happened to the weavers?

Who cares?

Maybe that's the real lesson we should take from the story. No one remembers them. The rest of their story is so irrelevant as to not even be worth mentioning. They are shunned. They are ignored. That may be the way forward. Those who steal, destroy, manipulate, and create fraud should not be honored with attention because more and more, attention is becoming a form of money. How we spend our attention is valuable.

The path forward is to continue walking in a direction we believe in and, if we're good communicators providing value along the way, others follow along with a shared vision which eventually creates a path for even more to follow. There will always be challenges, always be bullies and fraudsters, but the answer isn't to spend attention on them, but to rise up and move towards a better way.

Stay encouraged, @denmarkguy. Amazing things are happening all around the world, it's just a matter of perspective and our current state of mind based on what we see immediately around us. Keep fighting to maintain your optimism while venting as needed with a little, "Get off my lawn!" from time to time. :)