"As Anais Nïn said, "we see things not as they are, but as we are".
If we lose the courage to believe that revolutions are possible, if we insist on tracking just the hero-narratives, then we get heroes–the Men in the Arena(TM) – and we reinforce the socioeconomic and mythopoetic infrastructure that it takes to support them, i.e. the shape of the arena itself.
The hidden and untold story of how crowdsourced and open networks of innovation built up 90% of the mass beneath these "heroes": that is the ground beneath the Arena that we are not talking about.
And those of us who helped to lay those foundations, as well as continue to toil in the tech catacombs beneath them, we have much more power than the Hero narratives would lead us to believe."