[Buddha-l] Thoughts on action in 2007

[jkirk]

A while back I posted this book for list denizens' consideration:
David Korten, _The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community_, 2006.
It could be considered as a supportive counterpart to David Loy's _The Great 
Awakening_, an analysis of capitalist/corporate domination and psychology in 
Buddhist terms.

I just found Korten's website, http://www.davidkorten.com/  , where you can 
find more on his ideas of building community in the face of the hell we live 
in now when getting rich, making more money, is the dominant goal.

His earlier book was titled _When Corporations Rule the World_,  an 
international bestseller that helped expose the attack on democracy and 
economic justice being advanced through free trade agreements and the 
institutions that negotiate and enforce them.

I realize that some members of this list are rampant individualists and 
hearty capitalists, so these ideas won't speak to them, but I suspect they 
might be felt worthwhile by some of us. I just got an announcement that 
Korten will be speaking at our local Unitarian Fellowship on Jan 19th. I'll 
be there.

Will 2007 be better than the past 6 years? Can we do anything about it?
Joanna