Towards a More Sustainable Form of Capitalism
Few would argue that capitalism, and its principal expression—corporations—has become the dominant economic power of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, we are beginning to see cracks in what used to appear to be the unstoppable force of unfettered capitalism. The world economy is in shambles. The environment is under sever threat. And the powers that be are desperate to come up with new solutions, but unfortunately are framing them through the lens of the old paradigm, and therefore cannot be expected to solve these problems.
Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. In simple layman's terms - If we always do what we have always done, we will always get what we always got. Thus, if we are to truly change our system and fix these fundamental problems, we need to frame our solutions through the lens of new thinking. That is what we do on this website.
A View to the Future
In contrast to many who would advocate the elimination of the capitalist system, we feel that it is not capitalism that is the problem, but how it is applied and what currently drives it that is the problem. Yet we don't advocate trying to arm wrestle the existing systems and power structure to bring them around to a new way of thinking and acting. Buckminster Fuller was well-known to have said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a NEW model that makes the existing model obsolete.” That is what we will advocate here.
On this site you will find a series of articles, as well as connections to other resources, that explore the nature of capitalism and how it might be re-purposed to serve as an agent for good in the world and how that actually might be accomplished. In fact, much of what we will convey here is about things that are already taking place, usually below the radar screen of the media and other powers that be, who are focused on the "dinosaurs" of current capitalism and don't notice or see the "small mammals" of new capitalism that are unfolding before their unseeing eyes.
Those are the encouraging new stories that we want to tell. Join us by going to our latest article here or our previous articles here.