QUOTES
"The
Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet
we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its
economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the
fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens
the demise of our whole civilization.
there
seems to be good reason to believe our species' recklessly egotistical and destructive
phase is coming to an end with new knowledge that leads us back to ancient wisdom.
We are
capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer
with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including
our corporations, into living systems.
I
used to think that the mechanical world view had imposed on us mechanical structures
and that our societies are really built like machines. But the fact is that you
can't turn living things into machinery. You can try to force them to behave like
machinery but they will not be machinery. That is exactly why our economists can't
predict anymore and our politics is falling apart. We don't understand them as
unhealthy living systems. We're trying to fix them like machines. It's very different
to cure a person and to fix a machine."
“When
you look at your society now, this may seem a difficult and hopeless time…But
if you learn to look at the present from a broader evolutionary perspective, you
will see the potential for a very different future. In fact, the present is really
an unprecedented time of opportunity. Think of it as a stage between caterpillar
and butterfly – a time of metamorphosis when an old unsustainable system fights
to preserve itself as a new system struggles to be born...There is no point in
being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task
is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful
positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among
those engaged in them.”
