I lurves me some Jeremy Rifkin.  Go read The End of Work if you haven’t already.

This video goes to an issue that drives me nuts on a regular basis…we are at a point in human development where the notion of a comfortable and dignified existence should be considered a human right.  We have the technological means to guarantee that everybody should be assured, at the very minimum, the ability to clothe, shelter, feed, and even entertain ones self.

All we lack is the political willpower to make it so, because too many people (particularly the ultra-wealthy ones) are still stick in their lizard-brained hoarding mentality.

We might be due for one more major revolution before it happens.

Don’t show this video to Glenn Beck. Then i would have to test this theory by seeing if I empathize with his head exploding.

I love this video. Thanks for posting it.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the brain, for some reason, and I’m also engaged in a long term real life version of “Kripendorf’s tribe” here with my two children.  I’ve been watching the unfolding of empathy and reason in my children, and others’ children, with awe and delight, in practice and in theory.  This guy is right on the money about the current state of the research, and its implications.  And you can watch it in real time with children and their parents.  As the twig is bent, so grows the child.  Every second a child is learning empathy, joy, care, concern or is learning to shut those feelings down out of fear and rage.  Mother’s groups and Zoos are a great place to watch people act out their own conception of humanity in front of, and on, their children.  I’ve always wanted to take a video camera to the monkey cage at a zoo and simply record the way the adults talk about animal behavior. They can’t help but tell their children, through their explanations of what they “see” just how theyr eally think about nature and human nature.

aimai