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Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?

I'll have to add it to the already unsurmountable things to read pile.

This awakening is driven in part by a communications revolution that defies elite censorship and is breaking down the geographical barriers to intercultural exchange.

For 5,000 years the ruling class has cultivated, rewarded, and amplified the voices of those story tellers whose stories affirm the righteousness of Empire and deny the higher order potentials of our nature that would allow us to live with one another in peace and cooperation.

What’s more, Rasmussen asserts that the forces that have brought us to this pass simply cannot be the ones to get us out: nation states are unlikely to be able to do it; corporations, by their very form, are ill-equipped; the market system won’t; “high-tech nomads and cowboys” won’t; our individualist ideology won’t.

We must infuse the mainstream culture with stories of Earth Community. Just as the stories of Empire nurture a culture of domination, the stories of Earth Community nurture a culture of partnership. They affirm the positive potentials of our human nature and show that realizing true prosperity, security, and meaning depends on creating vibrant, caring interlinked communities that support every person in realizing their full humanity. Sharing the joyful news of our human possibilities through word and action is perhaps the most important aspect of the Great Work of our
time.

Given that Empire has prevailed for 5,000 years, a turn from Empire to Earth Community
might seem a hopeless fantasy if not for the evidence from values surveys that a global awakening
to the higher levels of human consciousness is already underway. This awakening is driven in part
by a communications revolution that defies elite censorship and is breaking down the geographical
barriers to intercultural exchange.