Manifesto! For a global civilization

"A civilization is a community of beings united in a common aim of creating the beautiful"

I'm reading this little 1982 publication by  Matthew Fox, theologian, and Brian Swimme, physicist, and wanted to share some of the opening and very inspiring words:

"Though cultural chaos dominates the global situation of our time, the vision of what is to come can gather us into the work of creation in the midst of collapse and confusion. The chaotic fragmentation that surrounds the globe represents the confusion that accompanies every great birthing hour. The world quails with the fear of labor, and it is the task of our generation to act as midwife to this great birthing, to assist in the cosmological movement itself by creating those forms of life and being that will usher in the era of the global civilization."

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