5 Matching Annotations
- Dec 2023
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when we get our story wrong we get our future wrong
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for: quote - when we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong, quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon
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- When we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong
- author: David Korten, quoted by Thomas Homer-Dixon
- date: 2021
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- Jul 2023
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davidkorten.org davidkorten.org
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Human institutions are purely human creations. Theironly legitimate purpose is to serve the people on whomtheir existence ultimately depends. If institutions fail toserve us, then it is our right to eliminate or transformthem
- for: system change, institutional change, paradigm shift
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- "Human institutions are purely human creations.
- Their only legitimate purpose is to serve the people on whom their existence ultimately depends.
- If institutions fail to serve us, then it is our right to eliminate or transform them."
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- David Korten
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The surplus of life’s labor is not sufficient to con-tinue bearing the burden of a caste system devoted tocontrolling the many so a few can indulge in egotisti-cal displays of privilege on a dying Earth. The more ofhumanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system ofdomination, the less that is available to secure life’s wellbe-ing and the more rapid the living system’s collapse.
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for: caste system, caste, inequality, carbon inequality,
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- "The surplus of life’s labor
- is not sufficient to continue bearing the burden of a caste system
- devoted to controlling the many so a few can indulge in egotistical displays of privilege on a dying Earth. -The more of humanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system of domination (by the few),
- the less that is available to secure life’s wellbeing (for all) and the more rapid the living system’s collapse."
- Author
- David Korten
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parantheses
- Stop Reset Go
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new adjacency
- articulating inequality as a caste system
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davidkorten.org davidkorten.orgAbout Us2
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“We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours.”
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- "“We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours.”
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- David Korten
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We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within. Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions.
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- "We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within.
- Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment
- to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions."
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- David Korten
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