Most of us, at least in the mainstream, find ourselves pressured into conforming to a world driven almost exclusively by economics: a world constructed through binary and atomistic classifications of thinking and defined by hierarchies of values that are divorced from a living connection to life as a whole.
Few would doubt the benefits that modern science and technology have given us. Enormous advances in healthcare, technology and global communication, have impacted the world in a significant way. In addition, liberal and democratic traditions, imperfect and precarious as they are, have brought an often-unprecedented degree of freedom and human rights-including women’s rights-to many parts of the world.