Paul Ray calls it “cultural creatives.” Currently he estimates, as a social analyst, that about 30% of people in the industrial world have shifted their values from separated, tribal, nation-state, my-tribe-above-yours mentality to a planetary, co-equal tendency. And I think what’s happened is the crisis of dangers—including global warming, financial collapse—is pushing up the carrier population who has a more evolutionary, emergent sense of potential. Both in response to the crisis, but more than that, in a feeling of creativity: of something more wanting to come.
It’s not about solving every single problem on Earth, because you’ll wear out long before you have a chance to do it. But if you start noticing from the simplest acts to the most complex and see them as part of a whole system—now, that’s not an organization, it’s a living organism.
My brain, your brain, is extended through the Internet, and the computer, and the communication, and the cell phones. So, actually, we have a global brain.
I think the overall story is: our crisis is a birth, and that we are emerging as—potentially—a co-creative, universal humanity. And everyone is needed. And everybody’s creativity is needed.
