[P2P-F] Fwd: "In what way is what we are doing (investing in and building businesses) not working, and not aligned with society's and nature’s best interests?"

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 15:51:41 CEST 2021 

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From: Evolutesix <ask at evolutesix.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:49 PM
Subject: "In what way is what we are doing (investing in and building
businesses) not working, and not aligned with society's and nature’s best
interests?"
To: Hi Michel <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


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*In this session, we want to develop deeper insights into what levers we
have now, and what levers we must build so that we can do what is aligned
with society’s and nature’s best interests.*


*To get there we need to first get clear on why what we’re doing is not
working, and what in our thoughts and feelings has kept us anchored in
continuing to do what is not working; especially in the half-century since
“Limits to Growth” was published.*


*Themes we'll address.*

   -

   *Within the conventional container of profit and capital efficiency
   thinking, what we are doing looks pretty good, well-aligned with making
   more enterprises more profitable; which the prevailing paradigm assumes is
   in society's best interests.*
   -

   *But we have systemic blindness. We have two concurrent economic worlds
   in the climate challenge, during the pandemic - one of suffering and
   catastrophes, another of the self-congratulatory joy of great runs in the
   markets. We see stellar business and profit success of late from the
   "financial markets world", yet it is unglued from "underlying assets and
   people based world". We live in some ways as if there really are these two
   worlds, even as we know there is but one.*
   -

   *Our current response is not capable of dealing with the challenge: it
   is linear  (CV1-5), rather than a coherent whole nonlinear response (CV8
   response, perhaps with a CV7 bridge, which is what our current FairShares
   commons is.) CV1-8 defined here:
   https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/the-many-dimensions-of-change/
   <https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/the-many-dimensions-of-change/>*



*So to simplify, the aspects that are not working and not in society's best
interests are 1) structural economically - treating companies as property
not persons, and what that leads to, what such structure sets up as
outcomes 2) relational - not "getting" complete interdependence between all
systems and beings 3) deep shared psyche (meaning-making, and limited by
our low fluidity in thought-forms beyond simple binary logic); a psyche
that holds the world in such a way that fracturing into different
concurrent worlds happens, AND WE ARE OK WITH IT.*


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