By David Laveman | Bio
David Korten certainly seems to have a grasp
of the timely and seemingly intractable problems we face and a platform
from which to raise critical questions. I read his book “The Great
Turning” shortly after it was published and I found it provocative in
the best sense of the word, laying out in clear relief the choices in
front of us. His recent posts on “Beyond the Bailout” on Serene Ambition and on the New Economy initiative on his website spurred me to begin a deeper inquiry, the highlights of which I’d like to share here. [ 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.
Change begins with a new story that celebrates the best, rather than
the worst, of what we are and can be. It’s pretty straightforward. If
we convince ourselves that we are innately brutal, greedy beings and
that this is all for the good, then we set ourselves a goal of
perfecting our capacity for greed and violence, thus perpetuating the
world of our nightmares. It is time to start filling our heads instead with the story that it is
our nature to be caring and giving and that this is all for the good,
and therefore we properly set our sights on perfecting our capacity for
love and caring and create the world of our dreams.[ Read More]
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