Why doesn’t “having it all” work, but in this article you will find many things that do work—including the secret of life.
In this interview, Reality Sandwich & Evolver co-founder Daniel Pinchbeck discusses the ideas laid out in his new book, “How Soon is Now?” for tackling the impending ecological mega-crisis that threatens all life on earth.
Green work expands the economy by reducing waste of resources, workers
and wealth. Green jobs reduce the
costs of fuel, food, and housing, repair soil, water and
air, and build profound solutions to resource depletion and social inequity.
Etymologically speaking, to invest means to clothe, as in to take naked money and put it into new vestments, something
material, something real in the physical or social realm. Money is naked human
potential — creative energy that has not yet been "clothed" with material or
social constructions. Right investment is to
array money in sacred vestments.
Accumulation adds some measure to our security, but not for long. The mentality of accumulation is
coincident with the ascent of separation, and it is ending in tandem with the Age
of Separation. Accumulation makes no sense for the expanded self of the
gift economy.
Sacred Economics
envisions a world where people do things for love, not money. What would you do, freed from
slavery to money? What does your own life, your true life, look like?
Underneath the substitute lives we are paid to live, there is a real life, your
life.
I have long been impatient with “sustainability,” as if that were an end
in itself. Isn’t it more important to think about what we want to
sustain, and therefore what we want to create?
Community is impossible in a highly monetized society since community is woven from gifts. Intimacy comes from co-creation, not co-consumption. We must do more than simply get people together: we need to create together. Creating gift circles can reduce our dependence on the traditional market and help us transition to a co-creative partnership of interdependence.
It is time to enter into a new story, and a new kind of money that embodies it. We are in the midst of a transition parallel to an adolescent's transition into adulthood, when physical growth ceases, and vital resources turn inward to foster growth in other realms.
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