משבר
1. משבר הוא הזדמנות ללידה מחדש
2. לראשונה, העולם במשבר גלובלי ואינטגראלי
3. המשבר יביא לצמצום העבודה והצריכה ולעיסוק בבניית החברה
Niall Ferguson, Heather Conley
Field of reference: History, Politics
Description: Political crisis in West - leaders incapable of finding a way out of financial crisis
“For the better part of 500 years, it was Westerners on both sides of the Atlantic who could say that they had the best economic system, that they developed the best political system and so forth. And those claims have sounded increasingly hollow in our time," Ferguson said in an interview.The breakdown in public confidence caused by the financial crisis has revealed a deeper problem. "What we're seeing in government is part of a wider crisis of Western institutions," he said.Heather Conley, a former U.S. Under Secretary of State for European Affairs and now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said this near political paralysis seen in the United States and Europe is common when governments are at an inflection point. "Without decisive direction and leadership, we march in place or attempt to muddle through, uncertain of which path to take. The West is at such a moment," she said. "Only an external shock I fear will force us to take the uncertain (new) path. Or we will become so frustrated that the West will choose leaders who will take us in a radically new direction. I'm not sure our frustration level has reached that level, yet. But Europe may be arriving there soon..”
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 2. לראשונה גלובלי |
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Douglas Rushkoff
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: how the work-and-consume culture harmed our relationships.
“Most of us spend so much time working and consuming, that we have very little time and energy left to do anything that has to do with other people … and the more we behave as individual actors in competition with one another, the harder it is to encounter one another in a friendly way."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Dr. Dan Ariely
Field of reference: Economics, Psychology
Description: Our identity has become entangled with our job.
“most of us understand the deep interconnection between identity and labor… ‘What do you do?’ has become as common a component of an introduction as the anachronistic ‘How do you do?’ once was—suggesting that our jobs are an integral part of our identity, not merely a way to make money…"
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Richard Heinberg
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Economic growth is over, we have to adopt new values
“We all got hooked on growth. Rising GDP numbers became our main measure of success. ‘More, bigger and faster’ meant ‘better.’”
“We’re all addicted to growth. We all want better jobs and higher returns on investments. But we live on a finite planet.
The end of growth is not the fault of any one politician or a political party, but some people benefited from growth more than others.”
“We can live without economic growth, but we’ll have to start doing a few things differently:
“We have to measure and aim for improvements in life that don’t require increasing our consumption of fossil fuels and other depleting resources, or piling on more debt.
“Freedom, being with the people we love, good health and the time to enjoy it, a secure happy community.”
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Dr. J.W smith
Field of reference: Economics
Description: The article summarizes the book World's Wasted Wealth II (Institute for Economic Democracy, 1994). The book is full of calculations about uneccessary or non productive jobs in the US as an example.
"This is a total of 37.156 million unnecessary jobs And this is for a throwaway society.
Superfluous consumer products are sold only because of a "created need."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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