One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen.
There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories
like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or myths
we create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so,
however, we must recognize that we cannot live without myth, for it is an
essential part of our humanity. If we attempt to do so—given the fact that
something in us needs myth—we
will only create more myths that echo
the American dream—with themes of heroism, greed, entitlement, narcissism,
exploitation, exceptionalism, and myriad abuses of power. How we prepare for and navigate collapse will provide the raw materials for the myths we make and will live by in a postindustrial world.
Tag: activism american-dream sacred
Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.
Carolyn BakerTag: fear activism sacred collapse
None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see what
difference we made, but living out loud isn’t about noticing the results. It is about doing what we came here to do, for no reason other than that it is our life purpose.
Tag: inspirational activism sacred life-purpose
Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.
Carolyn BakerThe innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person in our lives is an opportunity to pass on the gifts we have received. The death of the old paradigm and all of the trappings of industrial civilization will provide
space to forge new values, new relationships, and minimize, if not completely obliterate, the concept of debt from human consciousness.
Tag: activism sacred new-thought
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
Robert ConquestTag: activism communism radicals progressives
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