Insightful article on evolving our collective consciousness; moving beyond the “unfillable hole of never-enough” that characterizes our culture:
“As part of their map to the coming decade, The Institute for the Future has laid out four post-pandemic scenarios for the United States, with echoes and implications globally. They range from a collapse scenario they term ‘Ungoverning,’ characterized by a civil war between ‘blue masks and red hats’ to a transformation scenario they call ‘Social Solidarity,’ characterized by a sharing economy and well-being as a basic human right. In between is a growth scenario that shores up existing capitalistic systems and a constraint scenario with Orwellian levels of health monitoring and contact tracing. What these scenarios highlight are the high stakes of the transition we are living and leading through. They share in common a set of forces most assuredly shaping the decade to come: economic and racial inequality, political and social division, broken healthcare systems, technology supplanting human workers, all set upon a planet in a climate emergency. Where they differ is in whether we face into these wicked issues by evolving our consciousness, regressing in consciousness, or muddling through without much change in consciousness. … The sign of great leadership is that it advances consciousness, it pulls people up. Practices that evolve our consciousness, that can grapple with paradox and borrow from permaculture can help us create a future of work that is a future we want.” (From “Enough: How Practices, Paradox And Permaculture Can Create A Future Of Work That Works,” by Ginny Whitelaw in Forbes magazine online, February 9, 2021.)