Coming to Kansas City, Ks., November 2-3, 2007 - here is a short preview of Korten as broadcast last Friday.
[Excerpt.] "DAVID KORTEN: Well, essentially, this gets to the basic theme of the conference, that we humans have come up at a defining moment in our experience, in which we're confronting the limits of the ecosystem at a time when we are in a condition of extreme inequality between the rich and the poor, and we're dependent on an economic infrastructure that, in turn, depends on the assumption of everlasting cheap oil. Now, we've essentially come up to the limits.
What my book, The Great Turning, does is puts it into our current situation to the deeper context of 5,000 years of human experience, organizing ourselves, both our relations among nations and among -- all the way down to among family members, based on dominator hierarchy. And what this -- the underlying pattern of societies, with a few people on the top, many people on the bottom, and the majority of the society's resources being expropriated by the ruling elites in order to maintain a system of domination. And we have played that out for 5,000 years, empire through empire, each one falling in turn, is it, through internal corruption and the devastation of its resource base. And now we're encountering that on a global scale." [End excerpt.] Read more. Author David Korten on "The Great Turning"
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