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Re: [pf] Moving out of despair
by Nan Hildreth
18 November 2000 06:40 UTC

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Dear Kaleopono,

Bravo!  Yes, I have seen the seeds of a solution sprouting, growing.  We
are one of fresh green shoots.  There are even new shoots in oil companies,
good grief.

I love Atkisson for saying that once 5% to 15% of a population figure out a
new direction, they can drag the muddled others along.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030424031613/http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/AtKisson.htm

Hanging around conservative Christians and radical Christians, it's dawning
on me that it's a dreadful muddle.  We lack  leadership.   It seems the
majority of America still believe the stories of patriotism of "my country
is the best country", "we deserve our priviledge".  Many have never had it
challenged. 

For such mainstreamers it may require a real person in their community to
challenge their old story and get them thinking.   But we creatives are
25%, we know everyone on a first name basis. 

Nan

At 09:06 PM 11/14/00 -0800, Kaleopono wrote:
>Vicki Robin of the New Roadmap Foundation makes similar points to those I
>made in a previous post, that we are observing the death of the old ways and
>the birthing of the new.  The paragraph below from her latest update on the
>activities of the foundation (http://web.archive.org/web/20030424031613/http://www.newroadmap.org/finews.asp )
>elaborates more than I did on the positive signs that may help draw us out
>of despair when we feel beaten down, hopeless and helpless.  Our culture
>turns everybody -- no exceptions -- into victims.  What a life support
>system!
>
>Kaleopono
>______________
>
>"Have you noticed that the tide is turning? Everywhere we look - around the
>planet, within communities, families and citizens - we see evidence of new
>possibilities. As I write this, the leaders of the world, meeting at the UN,
>have just committed themselves to a level of poverty alleviation, public
>education and debt relief that is new. Perhaps too little, maybe too late,
>but consider this. Consider the thousands of citizen's movements working
>steadily for the same changes. Consider the small study groups and learning
>communities where people are en-couraging one another to change. Consider
>the local government initiatives for projects that could allow cities to be
>sites of grace, ease and conviviality. Consider the actions of individuals -
>your actions - towards a saner way of living. Do you see another picture,
>one rarely portrayed as "news?" Openings to real social and cultural
>transformation are now everywhere - but only if each of us stays alert,
>stays engaged and discovers that small piece of work we are called to. This
>newsletter is filled with specific ways you can participate in the work/play
>of making the world a saner, more financially responsible place to live, and
>with all the contact information you need to get started. Beyond this, there
>are sensible solutions in every field, from preventive medicine to
>governance to education to regional sustainability to local economic renewal
>to organic agriculture and subscription farming to spiritual maturity to. .
>. . There are grand people - you included - who are pulling off minor (and
>major!) miracles. Yes, the inertia of global warming, the old
>institutionalized injustice and racism, and the waking sleep of the consumer
>culture will be with us for many destructive years to come. But right now
>possibilities abound for setting new, inspired, sustainable and healthy
>directions for this enterprise called Life."
>
>-- Vicki Robin



Nan Hildreth, Houston

The following roles are played in a game about the diffusion of innovations
in society and our step by step movement. 

The roles: 
- Innovator (creates the vision or innovation) (Quantity 1) 
- Change Agents (promote the vision or innovation) (Qty 2) 
- Transformers (willing to try something to improve the world if it's
not too weird and an obvious improvement.) (3) 
-  Mainstreamers (Only try a change when your friends do.)  (6) 
-  Laggards (Change is a scary hassle.  When almost everyone else changed,
you will go along.)  (3) 
-  Iconoclast (critic who keeps others wondering whether they are right)  (1) 
-  Spiritual Recluse (I can inspire if someone would just pay attention
to me.)  (1) 
- Curmudgeon (nothing will ever change, an Eeyore) (1) 

http://web.archive.org/web/20030424031613/http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/AtKisson.htm