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Charles Eisenstein: It's Time for A Better Narrative


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Our actions are determined by our beliefs. And our beliefs are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves.So what happens when the stories we tell ourselves are inaccurate?The short answer is: we find ourselves engaging in actions that aren't aligned with our best interests.Charles Eisenstein has made a profession out of studying the intersection of economics and philosophy. And he thinks that over the past several generations, enabled by an unprecedented subsidy of abundant cheap energy, our society has become so far decoupled from natural laws that it has adopted a paradigm of thinking (or "stories") dangerously irrelevant to the future we face.As resource scarcity increasingly expresses the natural forces that applied to our grandparents' generation and those prior, we are still living under a mindset that assumes predictable, endless growth.Think about it: most people reading this and nearly all of our national leaders have come of age in one of the most, if not the most, extraordinary economic periods in history. The exploitation of petroleum fields ushered in a global prosperity not dreamed of before. Decoupling gold from the dollar has allowed those living in the US to increase debt much, much faster than GDP for the past forty years. This behavior is empirically unsustainable - but to almost all of us, it feels "normal", because it's all we've known.And it's coming to an end.

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Subido: 10/02/12 a las 9:44 pm
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pukulu (el 03/07/12 a las 2:30 am)
A manifestation of the change in consciousness needed to shift away from Eisenstein's ascent-style narrative (growth, exploitation, pollution) will involve a new political movement, called something like the "contract, relocalize, earth-centered, simplify and conserve" party, which could include disenfranchised members of either of the 2 major political parties in the USA, both of which are captivated by the archaic narrative.
nUboon2Age (el 24/05/12 a las 2:23 pm)
@sadol1: oil industry didn't come up with the insight of peak oil - they've hated that fact and tried to ignore. But reality won't let them. If oil is renewable as you speculate, it takes enormous amounts of time to happen so it won't rescue us. And even if it did it wouldn't address global climate disruption. The old economy simply isn't workable much longer.
Kel-chan (el 12/02/12 a las 7:24 pm)
how long does it take to renew?
sadol11 (el 12/02/12 a las 8:06 am)
its renuable, its not a bunchof dead dinossaurs and trees, its a renuable mantle process, got it?
mlturboguy (el 12/02/12 a las 7:40 am)
So what happens after your half century supply runs out? You really think that Brazil will keep it all for your own use and not sell it to the world demand?
Audrey Irvine (el 11/02/12 a las 6:48 pm)
Wonderful interview. Its so easy to get lost in the dark with all the looming problems. It is wonderful to see ways we can come together to to work on a positive future and it all goes badly to have new directions ready to implement. Thank you also for taking us beyond just the financial. Love your work.
jj la medica (el 11/02/12 a las 5:50 pm)
wow, fascinating interview! terrific job here by both chris and charles.
BugsMr123 (el 11/02/12 a las 4:44 pm)
It's also true that our beliefs are determined by our actions. Narratives are always fictions. Why are you surprised? Looking for new narratives is a task for those who seek to be the leaders of the new order, the new high priests.Maybe we have to get rid of narratives that deceive us.
sadol11 (el 11/02/12 a las 9:21 am)
pick oil is BS, here in brazil we found the biggest oilfield in our history, enough for brazilian consunption for at least half a century, peak oil is bs from oil industry to make it more expansive simple as that
Alex Tahti (el 11/02/12 a las 7:48 am)
Humans are a social animal. Dogs get lonely too.

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