[Oe List ...] Quote from Lerner, Left Hand of God

[KarenBueno at aol.com]

P. 25
Globalized capital has accelerated the economic, communicative and ecological 
interdependency of all people on the planet while simultaneously fostering 
social relations that heighten our mutual isolation and alienation from one 
another.  It has fostered (or in some cases, brought into fuller focus previously 
underplayed) "radical needs" that it cannot satisfy:  the need for a life that 
has higher meaning and purpose than a one-dimensional focus on economic 
security and accumulation of material goods; the need for work tht contributes to 
the common good; the need for love and sanctity both in family life and in 
friendships; the need for privacy and protection from the invasiveness of new 
technologies; the need for a new relationship to nature that not only fosters 
ecological sustainabillity and a massive effort to repair of all the environmental 
damage we have done to the planet but also encourages awe and wonder and 
joyous celebration at the grandeur of creation; the need to experience and form a 
life that has a relationship to the spiritual dimension, that is, to the those 
aspects of reality that cannot be measured or subjected to empirical 
verification; the need for a society that encourages kindness, generosity, compassion, 
nonviolence, peace, and social justice, and affirs pleasure and wisdom and 
rejects the manipulative, tecnocratic, reductionist thinking that today parade 
as "savvy" or "efficient."

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Note:  I joined Michael Lerner's group, and they encourage action to begin as 
a result of reading the book.  This is an action of mine--to share some pithy 
quotes from his book with you guys.  Somebody can take them further by 
creating charts, short courses, etc.

from Karen Bueno, formerly Karen Wright, Fifth City resident 1969 to 1972, 
Houston house resident to 1973, now in the Denver metro.
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