Reply #10: Hey, your message (before the edit) prompted me to check out the author, Charles Eisenstein. [View All]

[Kaleko]

I'm glad I did. He's an extremely bright young man and flying at an altitude that gives a much more comprehensive overview than usual in lefty blogs.

For example:

The sense of self that I call Separation gives birth to a compulsion to control, related to the belief that there is no purpose to life except to survive, to maximize comfort and minimize risk. We see this in our medical system, our education system, our financial system, and in nations' foreign policy. Why oh why is "security" the highest priority? Obama said recently, "My top priority as President will be to keep Americans safe." I find that insulting. It implies that that is the will and top priority of the American people too. Even if it is true, it is still insulting. We humans are better than that. When is a candidate going to say, "My top priority will be to create a more beautiful world"?

It is impossible for politicians to make any meaningful changes when the operate from the same deep assumptions about self and world that have held sway for the last several millennia. The world we know today is the inevitable result of those assumptions. Real change will only result from a thorough revolution in the human sense of self; I call it a revolution in human beingness. I have made this point at length in AOH {The Ascent Of Humanity}. It is time for me to move on I think.

More at http://ascentofhumanity.blogspot.com/2008/08/current-events.html