Joanna Macy on The Great Turning
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2007
- Eco-philospher Joanna Macy from "The Work That Reconnects", talking about the concept of a Great Turning.
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Video by Leo Daedalus (c) 2005 Joanna Macy
Interested in learning more about The Great Turning?
See clips from the new movie at www.thegreatturningfilm.org/
I love this Woman! She is an inspired educator, an inspiring leader, and a wise Elder. Blessings to you Joanna
Thank you for Joanna Macy. Her deep caring and understanding is a blessing now...as we TURN.
[transcript]
"Here we have a shift, a moment in human history that is similar in scope and magnitude to previous revolutions. [First there was the agricultural revolution,] and that took centuries. [Then there was the industrial revolution] And the second that was that big in terms of how it changed human life was the Industrial Revolution, which started just two hundred years ago.
This is the third revolution of comparable magnitude. Lester Brown called it the environmental revolution, and the ecological revolution, Dana Meadows called it the sustainability revolution. But more and more of us are simply calling it the Great Turning.
And this revolution has to happen much faster, and at the same time has to be more thoroughgoing. This is a whole mindset of who and what we are in relation to the planet… we are part of a living planet.
We can present it as the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. What determines the nature of this political economy, how it sets its goals, how it measures its success, is in terms of how it grows, how fast it grows. And grows in what? Health? Longevity? Wisdom? Beauty and Grace in the Eyes of God?Profit. .…So that right away shows you that this, from the system's point of view, is a doomed political economy. It's a doomed system on runaway, because it is seeking to maximize one part of it. And once you do that with any system, everything goes out of whack and it begins to devour itself. Once you try to maximize one part, then you can't have balance, which means you can't have sustainability.
This is so huge a revolution, so huge a movement, this great turning, that there are perforce many ways of going about it. So I'd like to put the dimensions of the great turning in terms of flows of causality, how they're mutually supporting. So that the most obvious one that we often identify with activism is what we call holding actions, and these are all the actions that slow down the destructiveness of the industrial growth society. So these are everything from soup kitchens to protest marches to tree sittings to legal and legislative campaigns.
But it's not enough, because the life-sustaining society needs structures, new ways of doing things. Gaian - I used to write 'alternative' - structures and patterns of organizing. New ways of holding the land. Ancient ways of growing food, ways of measuring prosperity, new forms of education, ways of people teaching each other and waking each other up. That's not enough for the Great Turning either. Because any new structures or patterns will shrivel, they'll die unless they're deeply rooted in our values, in our belief in what is worthwhile. In our assumptions about the nature of reality.
And so that's happening too, at a colossal rate of speed. You can call this the shift in consciousness. There's the coming up of new evidence from science, quantum theory, systems theory, chaos theory, holographic theory. There's the wisdom traditions of ancient peoples coming up with very much the same perspective on the intricate interconnectedness of all life patterns.
So new ways of seeing, new ways of seeing the sacred, new forms of spirituality. It's a scientific and spiritual revolution.
So it's an incredible time to be alive. That's another reason I want to anchor this concept of the great turning in you, because it's a source of a sense of tremendous privilege and excitement.
It means that life can go on. And that can be an exquisite reason to get up every morning.
We can’t have even a small turning unless a significant number of us turn. Find a deeper dimension in ourselves and begin the process of transformation.
My "accent" mistake-she apparently does say 200! However the centuries/Millenium mistake still stands.
Listen carefully. She does say 200, not 20.
"Once you try to maximize one part of a system, you can't have balance nor sustainability". And it also makes it less resilient. The French health system was made more 'efficient' by cutting spendings over the years and the Covid crisis has shown how weak it was. Industrial agriculture is becoming more 'efficient' to make money every decade, but it is not sustainable and totally inefficient in other aspects (you have to burn 10 calories of fossile fuel to produce 1 calorie of food). There are probably many other examples of this.
Wer könnte diese Clips von Joanna mit deutschen Untertiteln versehen? Ich bin sicher Joanna hätte da keinerlei Einwände.
The 4 parts of the cycle.
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metaplastic.com/macy doesn't work now
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People have their bio rhythm in sync with the dark side , aka popular culture
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Listen carefully. She does say 200, not 20. Also, a millennium is 10 centuries, so I think you're splitting hairs.
There are people that are qualified to do so. However, money is needed lol.
Whoa- those initial time frames Joanna mentions are much too brief. Mankind's agricultural revolution took MILLENIUM (not centuries) & the Industrial revolution began ~200 years ago (NOT as she says 20!). Such initial blunders weaken her subsequent views...
@wolfgang0070 I don't know what evidence you are dreaming up? Live everywhere is in steep decline because of the consequences of " industrial growth society" and it's resultant over population.
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So why don't you New Agers set up your own society in a remote area and prove to the rest of us how great your new way is! Oh, you want to destroy or interupt the present one to impose your own disproven hippy dreams. LoL! Come on, but a small island somewhere and show us! Convince me!
@freedrum I guess for people like you it would be better to pile up shit on earth and turn oceans into a disgusting plastic soup.. increase the wealth gap between the rich and poor, privatize water, wipe out entire species of animals and plants.. yes thats much better :/ 😕
This person will never solve climate change. wish I could have my 5mins back.
I really like the transition movement but I HATE how A-political it claims to be. Why replace the word capitalism with 'industrial growth society'? Call it what it is and what everyone else calls it ffs - you can claim to be non-political all you want but it's pissing in the wind when you're calling for a revolution. An entire movement of eco-marxism that claims it isn't is just silly and it means that this movement and the socialist movement ignore each other - better together. Always.