David C. Korten
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- collective obsession with growthfrom
James Hillman’s critique of our obsession with psychological growth finds a curious echo in the economics of GDP.
- a number that is consuming lifeboth
Money is just a number with no meaning outside the human mind, yet it consumes living beings to grow its own featureless bulk.
- flawed story of economic developmentboth
The reigning story that economic development brings universal prosperity is flawed: economies grew financially at the expense of life.
- imaging god why and how it mattersfrom
“Tell me your image of God, and I will tell you your politics”: a distant patriarch backs domination, a universal spirit backs sharing.
- intellectual orthodoxy of scienceboth
Willis Harman held that consciousness and matter are intertwined and that science’s mechanistic assumptions had become self-limiting.
- monoculture and cultural diversityfrom
David C. Korten recalls a youth with no concept of cultural diversity, expecting a whole life in a monocultural white town.
- mythic illusions driving development’s dysfunctionsfrom
The mythic illusion that money is wealth and the measure of our worth hands our life energy to institutions seeking gain by any means.
- sacred money and markets storyfrom
Money has become society’s object of worship, with markets as moral compass, finance as temples and economists as priests.
- shared culture and getting our story wrongfrom
We humans live by stories, and a society’s ability to live together securely depends on the authenticity of its shared story.
- story that gives a powerful reason to livefrom
If we do not share an authentic sacred story, the void will be filled with an inauthentic one.