Sunday, April 20, 2008

Cameron Johnson and the Invisible Hand

This story is about a perfect genetic match. The DNA of a societal system and the DNA of an individual. Cameron Johnson, a 23 year old Oprah ordained entrepreneur, has businesses coming out of his ears. It isn't forced, it is as natural as a Michael Jordan slam dunk for Cameron.

Every society has its blessed, those who fit so well they just need to follow their inclinations and the world is theirs. The more freedom in a society, the more democratic, the wider the scope of personality to whom conventional success is a natural outcome. But there are always those who ride the very crest of the big simple machine that any society finally is, manifesting the implicit direction the invisible hand of that society encourages.

“He was starting these businesses, and it would be 2 o'clock in the morning with him working on the computer,” father Bill Johnson, 56, said.

But Cameron Johnson kept going. At 15, he was invited to advise a corporation in Japan. When his flight landed in Tokyo, he was greeted by a mob of cameras. “We thought Mariah Carey or somebody was on the plane,” he said. “But then they started shouting my name.”
posted by Ira Altschiller on Sunday, April 20, 2008 @ 12:32 PM