Book Review

The Great Turning From Empire To Earth Community

www.thegreatturning.net By David C. Korten

from the website … This is a defining moment in history, and in each of our lives: an opportunity, and a calling, to be part of an extraordinary movement toward a life–sustaining global community – the Great Turning.

The threat of continued warfare to the future of humanity has become dire. The Great Turning explores that threat in detail and provides an equally detailed plan for meeting – and overcoming – it. Written in the author’s trademark clear, compelling style, this timely book uncovers the roots of Empire in ancient Athens and charts the long transition from the institutions of monarchy to those of the global economy as the favored instruments of imperialism. Korten then discusses the promise of early America as a democracy dedicated to spreading liberty and freedom – and the failure of the “American experiment“ through the contemporary takeover of the U.S. government by corporate plutocrats, religious theocrats, and neoconservative militarists in pursuit of naked imperial ambition. Korten draws on sources as varied as evolution, developmental psychology, and the wisdom of religious mystics to make the case for “Earth Community“ — a people–centered, community–based future that is both possible and necessary.

Please read this series of articles and commentaries on the failures of our economic system, and the path to a New Sustainable Economy:

davidkorten.org/content/neweconomy