 By Jim Selman | Bio
Read the rest of the 12-Step Program > Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3We’ve been drawing an
analogy between the state of affairs in the governance of our country
and the various kinds of addictive conditions we face as individuals.
Specifically, we’ve been saying the ‘system’ is broken, we’re out of
control and we need to find something larger than the political gridlock
driven by special and self-interest groups we’re witnessing in
Washington. In watching the final hours of the
healthcare debate, I was heartened when
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I have been making the
case that our country is trapped in a vicious cycle, analogous to
alcoholism or any addictive spiral that inevitably leads to ‘hitting
bottom’, and that we need a rigorous ‘recovery’ program. Our
Constitutional Democracy cannot work if our founding principles, the
Constitution itself , and the institutions responsible for sustaining it
are not aligned and functioning as a whole. In the ‘recovery’
literature and all 12-Step programs, the first and primary question to
resolve is “Where is the bottom?” Have we had enough of having enough?
Are we ready to acknowledge that the system is broken and we are
powerless to fix it? If we are, then we can begin the real journey to
recovery.[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
David Korten does a great job of showing us
how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer—how the ‘system’ is
rigged to create more for the’ haves’ and less for the ‘have nots’. It
makes sense. We can see it everywhere from the government’s disregard
for regulation, to the now inevitable necessity for a ‘bailout’, to the
way we measure the health of our society to the ‘either/or’
controversies that rage on while giving us more of what we resist. The
saddest aspect of this whole financial meltdown is that we probably
won’t learn our lessons. After all, wasn’t all of our current
regulatory apparatus created after the 1930s so the Great Depression
would never happen again?[ Read More]
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