Telling on Myself

I'm supposed to be working on a paper right now. But, sometimes the writing machine just needs to be primed by writing about something else.

So, I just completed a reading assignment for my Environment and Development course. It was a thought-provoking read, where the author, Ralph Metzner, advocates (and claims he observes) the emergence of a new thought paradigm: The Ecological Age. It's what in Metzner's world view needs to come after the current Industrial-Technological Age. You can read the entire article here. I promise it's not that technical.

My comment is just this -- too bad it's not as simple as defining a new world paradigm and starting to live it. Historically, we have to have some sort of paradigm-shifting event to drive us out of our old, sometimes-too-comfortable paradigms. In this way, maybe economic catastrophe isn't the worst thing that we could face right now.

Easy for me to say - our economic paradigm shift is a few years old now and I'm starting to get used to the personal economy of the smaller scale.

So, sorry all -- perhaps economic bad news isn't all bad news after all.