Check it out....here's a compelling idea: re-creating our society so that our inherent ability to empathize is allowed to flourish. According to Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis:
"What is required now is nothing less than a leap to global empathic consciousness and in less than a generation if we are to resurrect the global economy and revitalize the biosphere. The question becomes this: what is the mechanism that allows empathic sensitivity to mature and consciousness to expand through history?" (From a Huffington Post article--read more, here.)
Rifkin is the President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, and has been an advisor to government leaders within the European Union and elsewhere. His books about the effects of scientific and technological changes on society are used in universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide.
This particular talk is presented with simultaneous illustrations by RSA Animate, and is ten minutes of absorbing information that's also fun to watch. (Wish my notetaking skills were as well-developed as this!)
Want to listen? Check it out here. (Thanks to my friend Paul--who posted this on his site, EveryDayIsAwesome.....lots of good reading there, if you're interested.)
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