What If Our Crisis Is A Birth?

In the wake of the Presidential race, I found myself sitting, imagining and feeling how witnessing that display would likely have left many feeling dumbstruck, bereft and terrified for the future of the US and of the world.

I was struck by how much of the process demonstrated the worst effects of “competition” on human beings.

And how it was almost impossible to discern the signal through all of the posturing and noise.

It struck me that fundamentally, as Daniel Schmachtenberger shares, the current political system, predicated on competition:

“𝑰𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓.”

But that’s not to say that there isn’t still value in what happened.

Or that it’s an indicator that there’s anything wrong or off track in our evolutionary process.

In fact, in recently feeling moved to revisit the work of Futurist and Evolutionary Pioneer Barbara Marx Hubbard, considered by many to be the grandmother of…