My Vision of the Future |
Michael Dowd |
The vision of the future that touches, moves, and inspires me most deeply is this: Having integrated the meaning and significance of the fact that evolution has consistently produced spheres of cooperation and interdependence at larger and wider scale, we GET that this is our destiny. I see these two questions being primary guides for human activity in the 21st century… 1. How can we further the evolutionary impulse and govern ourselves as a species (locally, regionally, nationally, and globally) so that there are real and effective incentives for individuals, corporations, and nation-states to cooperate and serve the common good (each benefits substantially by doing so) and equally effective incentives for them NOT to cheat, dominate, pollute, or otherwise harm the common good? In other words, how can we create laws, taxes, and moral incentives to successfully motivate individuals and groups to do the just and ecologically beneficial thing and NOT do the unjust or ecologically harmful thing? 2. How can the epic of evolution be told in a multitude of personally and collectively meaningful (mythic) ways, so that it inspires billions of human beings with different worldviews to really want, and then successfully manifest, this vision?
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Revd. Michael Dowd |