Can Lego Blocks Patch All Our Problems?

Artist and Lego-lover Jan Vormann may have pegged the only thing that may save the world from crumbling. His work seems like a small-scale metaphor of how Lego blocks could save the world's floundering economy. Vormann has patched up a broken wall in Tel Aviv with Legos, and earlier this year, he patched another one in the small Italian town of Bocchignano. Add to his contributions what Legos have done for the fashion world, which currently shakes in its asymmetrical wedges at the increasing unwillingness of consumers to embrace new trends and their tendency to favor cheaper alternatives. What you essentially have is an inscrutable solution to the world's woes in something that resembles a basic plastic building block. Besides, It -- plastic, not Legos -- worked towards a greener Japan, didn't it?