politics

Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal

24 August 2016 Leave a Comment

Long read, but a good read... "With characteristic insight, the great American philosopher, John Dewey, once wrote: ‘Every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself.’ His point was that, at each moment in history, citizens and nations inevitably face unique challenges and problems, so we should not assume the democratic institutions and practices inherited from the past will be adequate for the conditions of today. Our ongoing political challenge, therefore, is to ‘accomplish’ … Continue reading

The Fertile Ground of Bewilderment | Charles Eisenstein

13 July 2016 Leave a Comment

"The Brexit vote marks a rare moment of discontinuity, when the usual normalizing narratives falter and a society experiences a fertile and frightening moment of bewilderment. Brexit, though, is a mere foreshadowing of the vertigo that will ensue with the next economic crisis, which will dwarf that of 2008. To prepare for it, we have to operate on a level much deeper than current politics offers. It is the tacitly assumed narratives lurking beneath conventional political discourse that need our … Continue reading

This #ProgrExit starts with your longing | Transition Culture

11 July 2016 Leave a Comment

Inspired by the notion of 'ProgrExit', Rob Hopkins, Findhorn Fellow and co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and the Transition Network, presents his vision of a progressive exit: "...it opens up the space for an inclusive, bottom-up decentralised response, one built on foundations of compassion, a global empathy, an intentional localisation built on equity and kindness. If we can participate, and inspire, there's a huge opportunity here...a useful place to start is to ask what is it that the … Continue reading

The Evolution of Cooperation: Solutions for winner-loser politics

8 July 2016 Leave a Comment

"The current political and social upheaval across the globe signifies that a major paradigm shift is under way. It has become very clear that we are living in accelerated times. Could one of the major issues be that we have come to rely upon a political system that is not capable of handling subtlety, or ambiguity? Instead, two-party politics and ‘yes’/’no’ questions, like the UK referendum, tend to result in simplistic binary decisions unsuited to the complexity of modern day life. We now have … Continue reading

Interview excerpt with José Mujica from the movie ‘Human’

18 September 2015 Leave a Comment

10 minutes of wisdom from the world's most humble political figure. Former President of Uruguay, José Mujica, speaks on happiness, governance, consumerism, climate, revolution, human nature and confronting reality.... "José Mujica, nicknamed Pepe Mujica, was President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 60s and the 70s, he was detained, like a hostage by the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. He advocates a philosophy of life focused on sobriety: learn to … Watch video

A wave of disruption is sweeping in to challenge neoliberalism by Jonathan Dawson | The Guardian

14 March 2015 Leave a Comment

An emerging relationship between the state and a commons-based civil society is starting to challenge the narrow thinking of the UK’s main political parties." Read the full story by Findhorn Friend and Head of Economics at Schumacher College, Jonathan Dawson, in The Guardian.... Photograph: Participants in Seoul’s Kimchi Making & Sharing Festival, November 2014. Photographer: Robert Cicchetti/Alamy Continue reading

Bitter Lake – A new work from a powerful storyteller

18 February 2015 Leave a Comment

New Story Summiteer and Findhorn Fellow, Paul Allen, reviews a new historical film by Adam Curtis. Paul writes.... "Stories are powerful; they are one of the key means by which we share our values, both with our upcoming new generations but also with those in other places. Stories can shape how we see the world. For generations they have been used to help us make sense of all that is going on around us, sometimes explicitly but more often subliminally. "One of the most powerful storytellers I … Watch video

Kosmos Interviews Joshua Gorman: Generation Waking Up

11 February 2015 Leave a Comment

New Story Summiteer and Coordinator of Generation Waking Up (GenUp), Joshua Gorman, is interviewed by our friends at Kosmos Journal. GenUp is a nonprofit organisation based in Oakland, California whose purpose is to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world. Through their core programs – WakeUp, Thrive, and Synergize – they are helping the Millennial Generation realise its fullest potential and impact. The interview was conducted by fellow … Continue reading

Satish Kumar: A New Story for Humanity

7 December 2014 1 Comment

Satish Kumar talks about a New Story for humanity in relationship to spirituality, consciousness, nature, education, politics, business and economics. Satish was interviewed by Rob Garrity and filmed by Rhonda Fabian on location at Findhorn's New Story Summit in Scotland in October 2014. Watch video

Simon Anholt interview: ‘There is only one global superpower: public opinion’

1 December 2014 Leave a Comment

Simon Anholt Launches the Revolutionary 'Good Country Party' The most pressing issue of our times, according to Simon Anholt, is: “the question of how the human race finally organises itself to work together.” "There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to stand up and be counted. On Friday, that moment arrived for Simon Anholt, a 53-year-old political consultant who lives on the Norfolk coast. Anholt’s stage was a TED conference in Amsterdam; he walked to the middle of it, and without … Continue reading