The second session in The Story of Now: a five week study of The Great Turning: from Empire to Earth Community by David Korten. Kay Engler leads this discussion on Tuesdays from 7-9 pm beginning Feb. 21.
It is the premise of The Great Turning that we humans stand at a defining moment that presents us with an irrevocable choice. “By what name will our children and our children’s children call our time? Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet’s resources, a dramatic dieback of the human population, and a fragmentation of those who remained into warring fiefdom’s ruled by ruthless local lords? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the noble time of The Great Turning, when their forbears turned crisis into opportunity, embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, learned to live in creative partnership with one another and the living Earth, and brought forth a new era of human possibility?” Our collective response will determine how our time is remembered for so long as the human species survives. For an overview of Korten’s work and ideas, check out his web site at www.livingeconomiesforum.org. In particular, see Korten’s article The Great Turning published in the summer 2006 edition of Yes magazine: www.yesmagazine.org/pdf/gt.pdf. The five session discussion guide for The Great Turning that we will use is available on the living economies website.
All interested persons invited.
Social Justice Discussion Series, The Story of Now, FCC Parlor, 7-9 p.m.
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