Freitag, 26. Oktober 2018

Charles Eisenstein - New Story



Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
This short contains some visuals from the upcoming feature doc Occupy Love http://occupylove.org

and here an another video "Charles Eisenstein Full-length Interview from Living the Change":

We hope you get as much from this interview as we did! Below are a list of questions we asked Charles:

1:06 - What are the 'old story' and 'new story' that you describe in your writing?
14:37 - Where does the sense that a better world is possible come from?
19:16 - What guides us in the space between stories to creating the new story?
21:11 - How did the world get to where it is now?
28:20 - Do you think advancements in technology can solve the problems we're facing?
33:50 - Do you see the current money system as a symptom of separation?
37:50 - What could an alternative system look like? Would the current system need to collapse to make way for the new?
43:24 - Can individual action create big change?
48:14 - What is the wound of separation and how do we see it expressed in society?
54:32 - What do you advise people to do in times of not knowing what to do?
1:01:33 - Can doing nothing take you to a place of knowing what to do?
1:06:39 - When you imagine the new story, what does it look like?