How to Heal America? – The illness of the nation part 2
By Viktor Kunovski
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Last week in response to what was happening in Greece and the euro-zone I wrote the post The illness of the nation – Why is Greece suffering?
Yesterday I enjoyed James Allworth’s blog at the HBR “The wall Street Protests and America’s choice” as well as Laurence J. Kotlikoff contribution on CNN “America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s “.This inspired me to ask you the question
How to heal USA/our nations/ us/ humanity?
It is time for major change, and I think people in the USA know and feel that.
For the past 3 years Americans have been choosing from a list of 80 to 100 values/behaviours and voting for the top 10 Personal values, Current culture values and desired culture values. (see slide 3 on this pdf. )
Without going into much details, this diagnostic says that USA is quite ill at the present. All top 10 values/behaviours in the current US culture are limiting (nice and polite way to say toxic). These “old/toxic/not functional/cancerogenic values and institutions that don’t serve you/us, need to be replaced with what brings energy, nurtures us and simply works for ALL of us, not just for some of US. The future strategy therefore needs to be aligned with the most desired values of the US people.
Since there is democratic government in the USA and the country is not run by characters like Gaddafi, Americans will be quite all right.
Americans need to understand that these problems/issues are so big that they can’t be solved by the president or the government alone. They require systemic leadership and participation of all the citizens. Thankfully this all inclusiveness is already happening. National dialogues on what is most important to the US people – “questions that matter” – is happening covertly all over the social networks. One interesting example of this is http://www.americanselect.org/
I believe that very soon we’ll see the manifestations of these activities and witness millions of people exercising the “democratic muscles” by openly going on the streets and “asking/demanding” (not rioting like in London last month) for CHANGE in USA.
USA is not alone in this. Global transformation, like never in the history of man has been happening for some time now. From Egypt and the Arab world, protesters in Athens, to students in Chile and anti-corruption demonstrations in India (to name just few), people within the system are showing big signs that something is ill within our nations and like cancer is attacking our economies, destroying wealth, health, education, environment. People also show readiness for transformative action that is socially fair, just, transparent and responseable.
The current US leadership needs to be open to the change that is inevitable, focus on what is happening at home, listen to its people and channel the incredible energies in creative ways. Opposing the changes will lead only to frustrations and possible civil tensions. If they are not wise to drive this process, believe me the new emerging leadership will, and it is only a matter of time. There will be some turbulence, which is very normal for THE DRAMATIC CHANGE, but overall USA and it’s people will be all right.
This global process of culture and consciousness transformation will leads to greater societal alignment, is naturally unfolding and it is unstoppable.
As my dear teacher loves to say: If you want to shine, you have to burn.
