The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): 2

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The chapter “cynicism” of this book is all you need to read: after a chapter of standard new-age handwaving, Charles Eisenstein tries to address cynicism, and he does so in a way summarizes the modern conspiracy mindset. Furthermore, living abroad gave me the opportunity to discover who I was apart from the reinforcing circumstances of my home culture. One very concrete way this plays out is in the mania for safety that I first noticed in the wave of litigiousness in the 1980s, that accelerated after 9/11 into a national obsession, and then reached hysterical proportions in the Covid era.

War, poverty, inequality, ecological breakdown, crime, sickness, addiction, and other forms of misery will not subside, not yet, not outwardly. himself, who loves to namedrop different conspiracies, just dropping breadcrumbs for his followers to Google. I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people? Now I’m feeling this, especially in this moment when I’m seeing all these people around COVID-19 and they’re pivoting, and they’re going digital, and they’re doing this and that, and I do not have an impulse to act like I do not know what to do in this moment, particularly I don’t have some brilliant idea.

Maybe you move to a new city with no plan like that, where you’re traveling, you know, without having booked everything in advance. Sometimes I feel nostalgic for the cultural mythology of my youth, a world in which there was nothing wrong with soda pop, in which the Super Bowl was important, in which America was bringing democracy to the world, in which the doctor could fix you, in which science was going to make life better and better, and they just put a man on the moon.Shifting to less personal questions, how do you respond to the Pinkerian argument that the Enlightenment has improved the world in countless ways? Is it practical to suggest that performing mundane acts like laundry, yard work, or changing diapers should be viewed as sacred tasks, as ways of creating a more beautiful world, as you suggest in your work?

And I recognizing that you’re also somewhere in between these two things, like how, how do we, how do I I’ll make it very personal? Yes, transitioning away from fossil fuels is highly desirable for many reasons — depending on what we transition into. Pinker has argued in two hefty books (The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now) that the Enlightenment way of thinking, led by science and reason, has indeed led to a vastly better world in numerous quantifiable ways. Well, no matter how far we develop our ability to control the world, paradise remains on the horizon, as far away as ever.And we do see in extraordinary circumstances, like the COVID at 19 situation, we do see people cooperating. I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.