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If you recognized that each of these statements is false, congratulations. Your consciousness has been liberated from the the cultural trance of Empire. You are probably highly immune to manipulation by demagogues and […]
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Try this simple test. Take a piece of paper and write the numbers 1 to 5 in a column. Then write down True or False for each of the following statements. Nothing is recorded […]
Since the beginning of time, most humans have lived out their lives entranced by the culture into which they were born. Every human community has a cultural story field comprised of the shared stories that define the community’s shared values, understanding, and expectations. A cultural story field is essential to the […]
Because it is our nature to be fearful, violent, greedy, and individualistic our wellbeing depends on a system of hierarchy to impose order and channel our destructive impulses to constructive ends. There is no alternative. Indeed, although […]
Earth Community Navigators are engaged citizens who are actively contributing to turning the human course from the dominator model of Empire to the partnership model of Earth Community. Defining characteristics are a passion for connecting people, exploring new ideas, challenging conventional […]
For the love of money is the root of all evil
1 Timothy 6:1
Evil is, for me, that which is destructive of life—not necessarily an individual life, but rather the system of life. Evil can also be systemic, as our money driven economic system demonstrates.
Pope Francis reminds us […]
David Korten is a leading critic of corporate globalization and a visionary proponent of a planetary system of local living economies. His international best seller When Corporations Rule the World, sometimes referred to as the bible of the historic Seattle WTO protest, helped frame the global resistance against corporate globalization. The Great Turning: From Empire to […]
By 1991, Fran and I had pretty much decided that Asia was home and assumed we might remain there indefinitely—until a fateful conversation with Smitu Kothari. Smitu was a leading Indian intellectual and activist who had beomce a close […]
My defection from the establishment involved a transition of several years. I left my assignment with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in 1988. A few months later, I wrote an invited paper for a conference of Asian […]
Up until 1978, with the exception of two and half years of military service, my professional base was in academia, although not exactly on a conventional academic career track. In my earlier career, advancing business education in low income countries seemed a promising […]