We live on a Fluxible Planet that provides us with the constant awareness that Change is always moving forward, while we are dealing with the NOW of yesterday’s possible future. Use MAYBE to create partnerships that are founded on Empathic outcomes. Our P8 is the founding principle in the Micro/Macro attention to that future with its eclectic mix of possibilities. So be it with MAYBE always challenging our common sense with our own selfish disregard for others. Time & Patience.
The arising of this error, so egregious and so firmly rooted, is closely connected with the philosophical, not to say religious, changes during the last three or four centuries in man’s attitude to nature…Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
Quotes from E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
…we have indeed labored to make some of the capital which today helps us to produce – a large fund of scientific, technological, and other knowledge; an elaborate physical infrastructure; innumerable types of sophisticated capital equipment, etc. – but all this is but a small part of the total capital we are using. Far larger is the capital provided by nature and not by man – and we do not even recognize it as such. This larger part is now being used up at an alarming rate, and that is why it is an absurd and suicidal error to believe, and act on the belief, that the problem of production has been solved.
Quotes from E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered