Designer's Responsibility

I found this speech by Kalle Lasn where he talks about the responsibility of designer's and where we as designer's 'fit in.' Lasn speaks about how designers are in a powerful position as people that set trends and fashions, creators of messages and 'cool-makers' used to deliver a message However Lasn goes on to describe how deisgners today may be facing an identity crisis, and questions whether designer's have become 'corporate slaves.'