Forging the pathway

As you know, I think history will look back and recognize a critical civilizational turning point dating to the countercultural ferment of “The Sixties” (which extended, actually, from the late fifties to the mid-seventies).

Let’s use the first Earth Day in 1970 as the cultural inflection point.

To all my friends who say, “We’re facing imminent demise, end of nature, eco-cide, worse … things must turn around soon, soon … during the next decade” (or two, or three) … I’m sorry, but a sense of the timeframe involved is indicated by the number of steps in the new direction that have been taken since 1970.

Tiny steps have been taken.

The steps are extremely significant. We’re talking about a culture gone haywire over a period of millennia. Thank goodness for the new direction!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Rabbit_Ecovillage

Since inauguration in 1997 they are up to 60 people. They have the right kind of aspiration: “To create a small town or village made up of individuals and communities of various sizes and social structures, which allows and encourages its members to live sustainably. And to encourage this community to grow toward having the size and recognition necessary to have an influence on the global community by example, education, and research.”

This is, of course, not the only way the new culture will manifest, but tangible modeling of alternative lifeways is key.

Fifty years after the inflection point, a small percentage of people are deliberately and consciously actualizing the countercultural “greening of society” vision. A new direction for humanity. It’s an exciting, even transcendent, endeavor.