Be the Change

Lately, I've encountered more and more people who believe our culture is living the wrong story.
The old cultural story is this: we need things to be happy, and we definitely need more money. Abundance is limited. We must fight for our share of a decreasing pie. Earth is here for humans to use (or use up).
What is in the way of creating a New Story? It is this...
Fear.
For example, one result of the old, dysfunctional story is this: most people who have "enough" are afraid they soon won't. They resent anyone who needs more, even if it's just to survive. Those who do not have enough are afraid too--desperate even--that they won't have what they need to survive.
There are plenty of dystopian Hollywood movies from Mad Max to The Day After to Idiocracy that show us how a this story like this ends: it’s a story of death and dying. In all of these unhappy endings, Earth is trashed for the sake of human needs or conflict. The vulnerable are exploited. Our c…
The old cultural story is this: we need things to be happy, and we definitely need more money. Abundance is limited. We must fight for our share of a decreasing pie. Earth is here for humans to use (or use up).
What is in the way of creating a New Story? It is this...
Fear.
For example, one result of the old, dysfunctional story is this: most people who have "enough" are afraid they soon won't. They resent anyone who needs more, even if it's just to survive. Those who do not have enough are afraid too--desperate even--that they won't have what they need to survive.
There are plenty of dystopian Hollywood movies from Mad Max to The Day After to Idiocracy that show us how a this story like this ends: it’s a story of death and dying. In all of these unhappy endings, Earth is trashed for the sake of human needs or conflict. The vulnerable are exploited. Our c…