As We Move From Modernism to Postmodernism (The Paradigm Shift)
You often here the key phrase “I want to save the planet” but during my blogs often I will argue that it is really the matter of saving our civilization. It is about changing our late-modern nightmare of greed and consumption to a new dream of following your own path to live a healthy lifestyle for you, your community, and everything else.
The Enlightenment came out of the dark ages 400 years ago and now a new way of Integral thinking can be brought out in these times of social and environmental despair. Much like the scientific revolution new tools and ideas allow us to change our picture of what life is really about. Today computer models and advanced physics give us precise data that we are able fine tune our text books. Now instead using the scientific modal we need to move more to way of effective learning bringing us an understanding that the world does not work in separate parts but actually works as a whole or a web. Integral science shows how this new dream of sustainability really makes practical sense in the real world. The Gaia Hypothesis, Dynamic Evolution, Environmental Economics and Chaos Theory is great new web views soon to shape the word, check them out!!!
As we take our way of thinking to the new level we will change everything such the ways we look at health, education, politics, and spirituality since this new age assumption will rework every aspect of your thoughts. As the conventional wisdoms fall out of place new ideas will emerge and the unsolvable will bring solutions. Sustainability receives a whole new meaning, it is not just about environmental degradation but receding from the complex mesh of sociological problems we see today.
The philosophies of genetic determinism and profit-maximizing economies will dissolve with the selfish feral ways of survivalism. As these grow more and more disenchanting our society’s power structures become subject to change. The more corruption and dysfunction is presented the old ideas will break down and our new way of looking at things becomes more fashionable. Sustainability is becoming sexy and hip while the conservative ideas are old and saggy like skin ready to fall of the bones… We see this in the destruction of the Republican party in America. After Obama was elected and the supermajority was elected in the Senate the Republicans were in grave danger of being a party of the past. Since then they have bought out all their cards on the table and have gone about as crazy as you can get. Washington D.C. is now full of lies and deception in order to distort the truth. No real talking points are brought up and only thing that have going for them is the fight for small government “ at they lost that in 2008”- I will talk further on how the Republicans mirror modernist thinking soon in a new post…
I don’t blame people for having their points of view, we are all machine age thinkers and it seems to be common sense that we live in a clockwork universe and everything works together but being independent parts. People who think that everything is connected and that we live in a web world are deemed as hippies, communist, traitors, and nut-cases. We need to suck up the name calling and try to explain out reasoning, especially when you believe that their mind is impossible to change.
“The past 25 years seemed to have brought a new period of enlightenment in which humans in increasing numbers have become aware of their ones as a species and their place, not as dominators or controllers of nature, but as an integral part of the whole web of life. Many cultures have held the view of Earth as a living being in which each species plays a vital role as a “global brain,” the Earth’s center pf self awareness. This changing identity is beginning to have profound effects upon the way we live our world in which war and abuse is only dimly remembered, in which there is no starvation, in which harmony among the species prevails and the rape of the Earth is ceased.” Thomas Greco, New Money for Healthy Communities, 1994
