Preventing Society's Collapse with Jim Rough
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Episode #14: “A Breakthrough for Preventing Society’s Collapse” with Jim Rough
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Are you ready to discover “choice-creating” and the power of differences? Join Duncan and guest Jim Rough as they discuss finding win-win solutions for everyone with the Wisdom Council process.
Jim introduces the idea of “society’s breakthrough” and the four social innovations that support it. Our society is collapsing, and it’s time for transformation.
Duncan and Jim talk about how our current system cannot adapt to our problems, and how we need to switch to a new way of thinking. Facilitators can change the future: Find out how in this episode.
Highlights in this episode:
Discover what Jim believes the magic sauce is.
Learn why dialogue alone can’t solve our problems.
Jim explains why he thinks society is terminal.
Uncover the power of collective intelligence.
Jim reveals an awesome strategy: Choice-creating.
Understand why our current way of thinking can’t solve today’s problems.
Duncan and Jim discuss the Wisdom Council process and why they believe the world is ready for it.
Facilitators are the future: Find out why.
Duncan: Let's just start with what makes you feel so sure that society is terminal. What are you tracking there that makes you realize that this isn't working?
Jim: Well, we're trying to take a social contract that was written 235 years ago. So, and now we're talking about the national case, and it's actually true for the global case as well. And this sets up essentially the rules of the game. So, you know, here's this constitution, this is what we're gonna check in on.
See people following the rules about how we make collective decisions. And then there's the rules. The decisions we make are basically policy, and then our economics is following the rules too. So what that ends up with is a competitive mindset where we're as individuals competing or individual corporations competing.
And that's not sustainable in the sense that now we have encountered the limits of our planet and our country, really. So we can't just continue to focus on our individual well-being and maximize individual well-being as though there's this comp-free and fair competition when we're trashing the planet.
I mean, it's like trying to play football out in the churchyard and tearing the yard apart. We can't keep playing this game-like mentality. At some point, we have to stop, pull back, and think collectively and intelligently together about what we're doing. Are we okay with this?
There isn't any overlay of collective intelligence. That's the problem.
About this week’s guest:
Jim Rough is a social innovator and Director of the Center for Wise Democracy. He is a speaker, seminar leader, and author of the book, “Society’s Breakthrough! Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People.”
As a consultant, Jim developed “Dynamic Facilitation” and “The Wisdom Council Process.” He and others teach seminars on these tools all over the world. Jim's primary focus these days is on "Society’s Breakthrough," an additional social innovation for solving impossible-seeming problems nationally (e.g., healing the national divide) and globally.
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