Fifty years ago, the Club of Rome published Limits to Growth, the first actual assessment of the global, consumption-driven, limitless growth economic model. That assessment predicted that if growth and consumption continued at the pace of the 1970s, the world would begin facing resource and energy shortages sometime right about now. Humanity failed to heed the warning and here we are — this is really what’s behind the supply chain issues that are so front and center in news and politics.
For as long as I've known what the Club of Rome knew, I've seen little overall shift in the behavior of humans. If anything, it's worsened, and rather than reason with cause, we are now divided and blame each other rather than taking stock, taking responsibility. I fear it will become much worse before it can begin to get better, and potentially too late for it to ever harmonize again.
I too have been deeply aware of the many attempts to raise awareness/consciousness about the terminal human conditions we find ourselves within. As I reflect back I see one major aspect to our collective dysfunction that directly influences our inability to address our own demise. "Double speak" has been at the heart of Christianity for 2000 years and thus all governments, institutions and efforts to address our shadows. When love is spoken while hate is practiced it's no wonder that everything that follows is a ruse. I see no evolution when words and actions have no meaning consistant with their dictionary definations. I believe 'double speak' is at the root of our dysfunction.
"Our opportunity is to harness this pressure to bring about an evolution in collective consciousness that leads to healthier, more beautiful ways of being." How to go from preaching about needing to change to discovering what we might do to create it? Governments aren't going to fix themselves -- late stage capitalism has them bowing to the influence of money. So, even after experiences of adversity that wake us up, what can we the people do? It's the question I lead with and wish others would, too.
For as long as I've known what the Club of Rome knew, I've seen little overall shift in the behavior of humans. If anything, it's worsened, and rather than reason with cause, we are now divided and blame each other rather than taking stock, taking responsibility. I fear it will become much worse before it can begin to get better, and potentially too late for it to ever harmonize again.
I too have been deeply aware of the many attempts to raise awareness/consciousness about the terminal human conditions we find ourselves within. As I reflect back I see one major aspect to our collective dysfunction that directly influences our inability to address our own demise. "Double speak" has been at the heart of Christianity for 2000 years and thus all governments, institutions and efforts to address our shadows. When love is spoken while hate is practiced it's no wonder that everything that follows is a ruse. I see no evolution when words and actions have no meaning consistant with their dictionary definations. I believe 'double speak' is at the root of our dysfunction.
"Our opportunity is to harness this pressure to bring about an evolution in collective consciousness that leads to healthier, more beautiful ways of being." How to go from preaching about needing to change to discovering what we might do to create it? Governments aren't going to fix themselves -- late stage capitalism has them bowing to the influence of money. So, even after experiences of adversity that wake us up, what can we the people do? It's the question I lead with and wish others would, too.