01-20-2017, 08:20 PM
ha ha, Rags. Incoherent he's not, but he goes pretty fast and not very deep. I don't think people can deny the reality of the three trends that will transform our times though.
From my point of view, he's obviously no new ager or hippie, and he didn't make much of the sixties. So we all have our interests. But I think he's right that we need to be open-minded to new ideas. The regeneracy will revolve around the challenges and changes he mentions.
And regarding the Boomers, and how much we need them, remember that it won't be the whole boomer generation or all their passions and culture wars we need. It will only take some visionaries like him to provide some leadership to the 4T. It will have to include the new agers and hippie visionaries that emerged in the sixties and seventies, because that shift in consciousness was huge. And the Bay Area was the hub of this, and yet he doesn't see it as far as I know. Imagine the change of discovering that our consciousness is the center of our reality, and rediscovering the resources and significance of the heart as well as the mind, and the whole dimensions of our being through all the other chakras that our techno society had just ignored. And our new millennial generation is largely ignoring it again, and Xers often scorn it; but it's still there and available, and was very widespread in many places, and is essential if we are to "reinvent" an America and a world in which we can be fully human instead of just technocrats in cubicles and skyping on mobile phones. New gismos are not as innovative as he thinks; it's not the instruments, but the new cultural and spiritual ideas and social arrangements that really make our world anew.
And he suggests as some here have done that just preserving social security and medicare is passe, but unless you embrace what he himself has rejected as the old libertarian Reagan paradigm, then the only new ideas I see coming in this field will be to expand on those programs to a guaranteed income and single payer systems.
There will be many points of view, but we will need to work together. As we are saying here, the Left and liberals have a tendency to concentrate on their own causes. That won't work, and we will need to join together with folks around basic common values and ideas instead of fighting ourselves if we are to win. And to win is essential; progress and survival will not come from the other side; it's ideas are too locked into the interests of a few elites and what benefits them.
And I see some opening in Leyden's approach, since I noticed the first innovator he mentions as highlighting in his venture, is Mr. Pollack who has a very counter-cultural and holistic approach to food. So who knows, Rupert Sheldrake and Deepak Chopra might find a home in this diverse realm of innovators too. And the idea may be voiced that innovation and transformation comes out of spiritual awakenings, and is inner as well as outer-focused.
At the same time, I know that in this 4T, I am getting impatient as I mentioned with just meditating and praying for unity and peace. We can restore our consciousness, but then we need to move out and apply that energy to real change and innovation, and the real contest for the future in a divided country.
From my point of view, he's obviously no new ager or hippie, and he didn't make much of the sixties. So we all have our interests. But I think he's right that we need to be open-minded to new ideas. The regeneracy will revolve around the challenges and changes he mentions.
And regarding the Boomers, and how much we need them, remember that it won't be the whole boomer generation or all their passions and culture wars we need. It will only take some visionaries like him to provide some leadership to the 4T. It will have to include the new agers and hippie visionaries that emerged in the sixties and seventies, because that shift in consciousness was huge. And the Bay Area was the hub of this, and yet he doesn't see it as far as I know. Imagine the change of discovering that our consciousness is the center of our reality, and rediscovering the resources and significance of the heart as well as the mind, and the whole dimensions of our being through all the other chakras that our techno society had just ignored. And our new millennial generation is largely ignoring it again, and Xers often scorn it; but it's still there and available, and was very widespread in many places, and is essential if we are to "reinvent" an America and a world in which we can be fully human instead of just technocrats in cubicles and skyping on mobile phones. New gismos are not as innovative as he thinks; it's not the instruments, but the new cultural and spiritual ideas and social arrangements that really make our world anew.
And he suggests as some here have done that just preserving social security and medicare is passe, but unless you embrace what he himself has rejected as the old libertarian Reagan paradigm, then the only new ideas I see coming in this field will be to expand on those programs to a guaranteed income and single payer systems.
There will be many points of view, but we will need to work together. As we are saying here, the Left and liberals have a tendency to concentrate on their own causes. That won't work, and we will need to join together with folks around basic common values and ideas instead of fighting ourselves if we are to win. And to win is essential; progress and survival will not come from the other side; it's ideas are too locked into the interests of a few elites and what benefits them.
And I see some opening in Leyden's approach, since I noticed the first innovator he mentions as highlighting in his venture, is Mr. Pollack who has a very counter-cultural and holistic approach to food. So who knows, Rupert Sheldrake and Deepak Chopra might find a home in this diverse realm of innovators too. And the idea may be voiced that innovation and transformation comes out of spiritual awakenings, and is inner as well as outer-focused.
At the same time, I know that in this 4T, I am getting impatient as I mentioned with just meditating and praying for unity and peace. We can restore our consciousness, but then we need to move out and apply that energy to real change and innovation, and the real contest for the future in a divided country.