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Don’t forget that it is much more important for the city [polis] to prosper than its individual members. For if the individual members prosper and the city is ruined, then they are ruined with her. But if a citizen is unfortunate while the city is not, he has a much better hope of mending his fortunes.
— Pericles
Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. That is unless —in that time— permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialised society have taken place. We need to change almost everything.. If you read through the best available science, you realise that the current climate and ecological crisis can not be solved without system change. That’s no longer an opinion, that’s a fact.— Greta Thunberg
In these circumstances, the only certainty is that the longer we deny reality and delay concerted action, the steeper and deeper the crash is likely to be. — William E. Rees
Centrist incrementalism — the kind that calls itself ‘cautious’ — is in fact exquisitely dangerous at this late stage of the climate crisis. (...) What we are trying to do... is explode the box. Because if the box doesn’t leave room for the safety and possibly the survival of our species, then there is something very, very wrong with that box. If what is considered politically possible today consigns us to a future of climate chaos the day after tomorrow, then we have to change what’s politically possible. — Naomi Klein
Being part of a system requires knowing that whatever happens is an expression of the patterns that entire system is involved in - that means, there is no fault, and everyone is responsible. No blame. Everyone must contribute to the shift. (...) This means big oil is not to blame, big banks are not to blame, big pharma is not to blame. Big weapons, and bad guys - not to blame. We are all included in a pattern in which those systems are interlocked into our survival and destruction. Whether we like it or not. — Nora Bateson
We now have everything in place —drones, mobile phones, facial recognition— for a society of totalitarian sur-veillance. We need strength, courage & lucidity to prevent these things from creating a society that is unlivable. — Edgar Morin
We need a completely new economics, a completely new system of sense-making, a completely new system of choice-making —of governance— at an axiomatically redesigned level. — Daniel Schmachtenberger
All we have learned of psychotherapy suggests that it is at the precise time when the individual feels as if his whole life is crashing down around him, that he is most likely to achieve an inner re-organization constituting a quantum leap in his growth toward maturity. Our hope, our belief, is that it is precisely when society’s future seems so beleaguered - when its problems seem almost staggering in complexity, when so many individuals seem alienated, and so many values seem to have deteriorated - that it is most likely to achieve a metamor-phosis in society’s growth toward maturity, toward more truly enhancing and fullfilling the human spirit than ever before. Thus we envision the possibility of an evolutionary leap to a trans-industrial society that not only has know-how, but also a deep inner knowledge of what is worth doing. — Willis Harman & L. Floyd Lewis
Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. That is unless —in that time— permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialised society have taken place. We need to change almost everything.. If you read through the best available science, you realise that the current climate and ecological crisis can not be solved without system change. That’s no longer an opinion, that’s a fact.— Greta Thunberg
In these circumstances, the only certainty is that the longer we deny reality and delay concerted action, the steeper and deeper the crash is likely to be. — William E. Rees
Centrist incrementalism — the kind that calls itself ‘cautious’ — is in fact exquisitely dangerous at this late stage of the climate crisis. (...) What we are trying to do... is explode the box. Because if the box doesn’t leave room for the safety and possibly the survival of our species, then there is something very, very wrong with that box. If what is considered politically possible today consigns us to a future of climate chaos the day after tomorrow, then we have to change what’s politically possible. — Naomi Klein
Being part of a system requires knowing that whatever happens is an expression of the patterns that entire system is involved in - that means, there is no fault, and everyone is responsible. No blame. Everyone must contribute to the shift. (...) This means big oil is not to blame, big banks are not to blame, big pharma is not to blame. Big weapons, and bad guys - not to blame. We are all included in a pattern in which those systems are interlocked into our survival and destruction. Whether we like it or not. — Nora Bateson
We now have everything in place —drones, mobile phones, facial recognition— for a society of totalitarian sur-veillance. We need strength, courage & lucidity to prevent these things from creating a society that is unlivable. — Edgar Morin
We need a completely new economics, a completely new system of sense-making, a completely new system of choice-making —of governance— at an axiomatically redesigned level. — Daniel Schmachtenberger
All we have learned of psychotherapy suggests that it is at the precise time when the individual feels as if his whole life is crashing down around him, that he is most likely to achieve an inner re-organization constituting a quantum leap in his growth toward maturity. Our hope, our belief, is that it is precisely when society’s future seems so beleaguered - when its problems seem almost staggering in complexity, when so many individuals seem alienated, and so many values seem to have deteriorated - that it is most likely to achieve a metamor-phosis in society’s growth toward maturity, toward more truly enhancing and fullfilling the human spirit than ever before. Thus we envision the possibility of an evolutionary leap to a trans-industrial society that not only has know-how, but also a deep inner knowledge of what is worth doing. — Willis Harman & L. Floyd Lewis