The Great Turning

The threat of continued warfare to the future of humanity has become dire. TheGreat Turning explores that threat in detail and provides an equally detailedplan for meeting and overcoming it. Written in the authors trademarkclear compelling style this timely book uncovers the roots of Empire inancient Athens and charts the long transition from the institutions of monarchyto those of the global economy as the favored instruments of imperialism.Korten then discusses the promise of early America as a democracy dedicated tospreading liberty and freedom and the failure of the American experimentthrough the contemporary takeover of the U.S. government by corporateplutocrats religious theocrats and neoconservative militarists in pursuit ofnaked imperial ambition. Korten draws on sources as varied as evolutiondevelopmental psychology and the wisdom of religious mystics to make the casefor Earth Community a peoplecentered communitybased future.