 By Jim Selman | Bio
One more day and we’ll know for sure who
will be our President. If we accept the polls, it looks like a
slam-dunk for Obama. (I already voted for him.) But even should there
be a miracle for McCain, the nation faces a moment of truth unlike any
time that I can recall’—at least not since the end of the Civil War. I
am talking about how we get beyond the LEFT versus RIGHT schism that
has divided and fragmented our nation and made a mockery of what we
used to say in the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ when we declared ourselves to
be “One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for
All”.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
Profound social change takes place when an
important cultural story changes—and the impetus to challenge imperial
rule rarely comes from within the institutions of Empire. Democracy
took hold when we replaced the story of the divine right of kings with
the story that the powers of government derive from the will of the
people. People of color and women won recognition of their full human
rights only as the civil rights and women’s movements successfully
exposed the fallacy of the story that people of color and women are
less than fully human. Recognizing the full humanity of all peoples
opens us to a deeper understanding of what it truly does mean to be
human in all the rich potentials that our human nature embodies.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
This brings us to the third element of the
big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother
Earth: the governing institutions to which we give the power to set our
priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such
injustice could happen in a world governed by democratically elected
governments. The answer is simple and alarming.[ Read More]
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Tom Brokaw in a recent AARP op-ed piece
pointed to the obvious fact that as the Boomers retire they’re going to
change our social and economic reality in profound ways. Lots of others
are predicting the coming crunch associated with questions of how to
pay astronomical healthcare and Social Security costs with a shrinking
workforce and tax base. Consider that about 4 or 5 of us have supported
one retiree over the course of most of our career. When we retire, a
couple of our offspring will be supporting us—as well as paying
additional costs for energy, security and cleaning up and protecting
the environment. You don’t need a Ph.D. in economics to realize that
something doesn’t add up.[ Read More]
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