2 Comments → Immanuel Wallerstein on the nature of the current bifurcation

1. Eimhin October 17, 2011 at 12:49 am

   He said it, “WE are the civilised, THEY are the barbarians.” Without an us or them, that is, in this dawn of a change in human nature, we become a global civilisation. Its as if the aliens were here, we are united under a commonality.
2. Øyvind Holmstad October 17, 2011 at 11:17 am

   “Ironically, science itself has long since moved on. We now understand pretty clearly that the legacy of this linear approach is a series of disastrous, unintended consequences, compounding with each successive project: failures in the social environment, the ecological environment and, now, the economic system that governs the sustainability of our resources. We are generally aware that the old paradigm must give way to something more life-like—more able to create resilience and sustainability, and more able to serve the real needs of human beings. We understand that we must move beyond the old “Ponzi Scheme” models of depletion economics—leaving tremendous irresolvable problems to our grandchildren—and find a more regenerative kind of technology, and a more sustainable kind of settlement pattern, to counter the unfolding global disaster of modern industrial development.” – Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros

   See: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111007/the-pattern-technology-of-christopher-alexander

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