[Scpg] Naomi Klein talks to Rob Hopkins about "Inner Transition"

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An interview by Transition movement founder/permaculture teacher Rob  
Hopkins with author Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine) that's well worth  reading...
 
Linda
 
_http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/23/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-
one-that-world-view-is-killing-us-and-that-that-world-view-needs-to-be-repla
ced-with-another-world-view-%E2%80%9D/_ 
(http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/23/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-one-that-world-view-is-killing-us-an
d-that-that-world-view-needs-to-be-replaced-with-another-world-view-”/) 
 
"... I know how important it is [inner transition].  I think that the 
failure to include the  psychological, the spiritual, the mythological, and how 
we talk about traumatic  political information, is a political failure and it’
s something that I think  the environmental movement really needs to 
learn...  
...I think that’s really something that has been missing.  I think the 
movement has lost its feminine  side.  I have a bit of a thing about how we have 
to stop looking at  the Earth from space – like with the astronaut’s eye 
view.  I understand  that theme of the planet being fragile as a breakthrough 
in environmental  consciousness, but now I think we need to get over the 
idea that we’re  hovering over the planet and can see it from space, and get 
back down in the  dirt! ...  
...we shouldn’t be surprised that there is a collapse in the belief in  
climate change on the right, because it is more of a challenge to that  
ideological world view.  One thing  that the women’s movement did really well was 
to understand that if you’re going  to critique patriarchy, you’re 
essentially critiquing the world we all grew up  with, right?  But if you do that, 
you have to be around to pick up the  pieces.  You can’t just explode someone’
s world view and walk out – “go be  an activist!”  I think it’s intensely 
political, that that component  is so embedded here [in the Totnes, UK 
Transition movement] and that  there’s so much collective wisdom around the 
psychology of change. 
...the place where I had seen a Transition process up close and 
dramatically  was when I was in Argentina for a couple of years, with the economic 
crisis  that started in 2001.  I was realising talking to this group of women  
today, all of whom are psychotherapists, that one of the things about 
Argentina  that makes it really interesting is that it has the highest percentage 
of  psychotherapists per capita!  I think it was part of the reason why there 
 was such a sophisticated political consciousness and a lot of  
psychologists and psychiatrists in Argentina are activists, and  they do diagnose the 
wider society beyond the patient!  That  discussion of everyone understanding 
that they’re up against fear is  quite unique.
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