"Yes We Can" Only Works With Truly New Ideas

AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - May 15, 2009) - While the "Yes We Can" momentum of President Barack Obama's administration has produced nearly unprecedented polling in the new president's favor, it's not likely to last unless the president adopts some new rules.

That's the opinion of one expert, who believes that Obama is still using the same flawed decision-making backbone as his predecessor, and it will lead to decisions that are just as flawed.

Samuel Odunsi, author of "Deep Thinking the Human Condition: New Ideas We Can't Do Without" (www.humanrethink.com), believes that the current academic infrastructure that is used as the basis for all current research and data on world affairs is flawed at the core. The academic world's motives don't revolve as much around solving problems as they do around the perpetuation of the power base it currently enjoys, according to Odunsi.

As a result, our leaders find themselves in a repeating loop of questions without answers and problems with unattainable solutions.

"Persistent underdevelopment in the Third World and persistent poverty in the developed countries -- two problems Obama promised to address -- exist only because of the shortcomings of the institution whose job it is to address these issues -- academia," Odunsi said. "The dilemma is that we all rely on the conclusions of the academics that serve as society's conceptual back office, and it has misled us all."

The key element that separates the problems from the solutions is the fact that rich countries are separated from the poor by virtue of culture, Odunsi explained.

"When the United States was pioneered, we had no academic experts to guide policy decisions," he said. "We simply populated the land and made it up as we went along. But now that we are prosperous, the world looks to us for answers, and we look to our academics, who say, 'Don't do it the way we did it -- use these theories that have never been applied, instead.' If Obama is to solve these problems, he and his team need to begin trusting those in the field, and turn their backs on the academic world."

About Samuel Odunsi

Odunsi has a B.A. in business from Texas State University. He resides in Texas and is a private business person not affiliated with any public or private academic institution.

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