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The Election

Monday Nov 03 2008

   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]

Written by admin at Leadership

Tagged with: commitment democracy integrity leadership mccain obama responsibility

The World We Want: The Power of Authentic Stories

Tuesday Jun 17 2008

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]

Written by admin at The Great Turning

Tagged with: authentic democracy earth_community great_turning social_change

The World We Want: The Big Picture III

Tuesday May 20 2008

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]

Written by admin at The Great Turning

Tagged with: community democracy environment government justice sustainability

Growing Older—A Team Sport

Friday Jan 04 2008

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]

Written by admin at Wisdom in Action
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