On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > ...http://goo.gl/rm3Te > We're going through 4 huge shifts in the world, and no one has any idea how > to manage them: > > Quote: Now let me say that in English: the European Union is cracking up. > The Arab world is cracking up. China’s growth model is under pressure and > America’s credit-driven capitalist model has suffered a warning heart attack > and needs a total rethink. Recasting any one of these alone would be huge. > Doing all four at once — when the world has never been more interconnected — > is mind-boggling. We are again “present at the creation” — but of what? > > The first (the EU) freaks me out most, both because it's extraordinarily > difficult to manage, and because no one in the US seems to see how important > it is.
Cool. Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. There are a number of folks who have anticipated these events which could roughly be summed up as the transition from an expansion/individualistic economy to an interconnected/collaborative economy. Charles Eisenstein, who presented here at sf_x, has written one of the main books on the subject (ascentofhumanity.org) and it's worth buying a copy. The tools in which to implement it are being explored and developed mostly outside the mainstream consciousness and traditional centers of dialog, but no doubt, the Internet is what is enabling it and also what will allow it to succeed. Glad to see the issue get some real attention. Marcos sf_x ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
