After Reading the Great Turning

This is an article from my blog, aguilahombre@wordpress.com

After reading The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, by David Korten and The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, I am even more convinced of the necessity of creating a new civilization here in the Western Hemisphere based on Indigenous values. Korten’s analysis of the 5,000 year history of Empire and the Dominator model, comes largely from Riane Eisler’s book, The Chalice and the Blade. It is clear that we are headed for economic and moral collapse, that the Empire cannot be sustained and a new path must be taken by all the different people here in our land.

The Party’s Over, made it clear that Peak Oil is basically here and that there is no escape from rising fossil fuel price rises that will cause modern industrial society to collapse because it will run head on into Capitalism’s iron rule — Grow or Die.

I see three areas that Korten’s book has not addressed clearly enough:

1.) One is on the necessity of finding a way to heal society’s hurts, so that we do not fall back into the trap of Internalized Oppression, which keeps us locked into seeking victims to blame for our anger, disappointment and frustration, when we cannot find the true source of our oppression. This weakness is manipulated relentlessly and skillfully by Empire and its main actors, government and globalized corporations, to keep us divided and at each others throats. It is the old and well…