„We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.“
Albert Einstein [In Transition 1.0]
There can be no step-by-step description of how to become a Cultural Creative. It is a process of culture making with tens of millions of people doing it in their own ways. Since they are part of a subculture that cannot yet see itself, these millions of Cultural Creatives do not know what a potential they carry for our common future. To bring a new kind of culture to life, they need to be able to stay the course. And they need to know where they have come from and where, as a collective body, they can go. (Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., The Cultural Creatives. How 5 Million People are Changing the World, Harmony Books, Random House, Inc., New York, 2000)
[Cultural creatives] like to get a synoptic view [and] see all the parts spread out side by side and trace the interconnections. […] [They have] a guarded optimism for the future; [they are disenchanted with] owning more stuff [...] materialism [...] status display and the glaring social inequities of race [and are critical of almost every big institution of modern society, including corporations and government.] (Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., The Cultural Creatives. How 50 Million People are Changing the World, Harmony Books, Random House, Inc., New York, 2000)
The Cultural Creatives […] brings together both the macrocosm of collective change and the microcosm of individual change. (Judy Kramer, former editor of Timeline, non-profits liaison for a California state legislator, Timeline, bimonthly publication of the Foundation for Global Community, July/August 2001)
Source: http://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/KulturellKreative (below)
source: http://de.spiritualwiki.org/Wiki/KulturellKreative
I think that I am a Cultural Creative and I think that it is important that we – all those who feel also like a Cultural Creative - build a network and organize us - online as well as offline. For that we can work actively on THE CHANGE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES millions of people hope for. We need institutions… but mainly we need collaborations! So we can live all different kinds of integral and sustainable lifestyles we want and believe in BUT we have a common main issue that we stand and live for - as the picture shows. The Cultural Creatives way of life shall be the way into the future that means earthcare, humancare and fair shares (> Permaculture Principles).
Therefor it is very important that we share information online; but even more important will be our offline contacts and activities I think. We must meet in the real life and define together the main topics for the society / the community /the world we want to live in and for.
Permaculture as well as Transition are two splendid and working OPEN SOURCE-possibilities. So it is possible to customize the sustainable lifestyles… let’s find each other and work together – that we become a serious and challenging power for the present key players and a convincing alternative to the running globalized consumerism.
It is up to us to keep Transition just a movement or to develop it to future social systems.
Links
> Awakening The Dreamer (Changing the Dream, Turning the Tide of Humanity)
> culturalcreatives (Website of Paul H. Ray, sociologist and creator of the term)
> emergent-cultures (Website of Rohaan Solare – “Demystifying the Past, Unraveling the Present and Anticipating the Future”)
> New Dream Next Steps (The Awakening the Dreamer Initiative)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.“
Margaret Mead [In Transition 1.0]
