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Our Ethical Imagination
Jul. 6th, 2007 11:37 pmI just bought The Ethical Imagination by Margaret Somerville. It's the print version of the 2006 Massey Lectures that the CBC, and a few other organizations sponsor ever year. They are always challenging to listen to. But last years talks are really striking a chord with me. They are talking about how we move forward as a society, and how we should be more of an intentional society, rather than one that just sort of stumbles forward, and tries not to trip to often. Conversely, we also need to preserve some amount of freedom and randomness to allow for natural selection.
These are ideas that the Neo-Pagan movement must confront as we move forward through the 21st Century. Without looking at these ideas, we may end up as a quaint little footnote on the century, sort of like the Hippies have become in the 20th Century. As an movement, we need to plan for the future...not to lay out a path, step by step that we must follow, but to create aims that we seek to achieve, and leave the how to the process as it works along.
I will be reading the book, and probably doing an extensive review here, and then after a round of discussion, put up a revised version on some well known pagan website like Witchvox to try and stimulate discussion, and to bring ideas into the consciousness of the great Neo-Pagan community.
It's supposed to be a couple of weeks before the book arrives. I'll let people know when it arrives.
These are ideas that the Neo-Pagan movement must confront as we move forward through the 21st Century. Without looking at these ideas, we may end up as a quaint little footnote on the century, sort of like the Hippies have become in the 20th Century. As an movement, we need to plan for the future...not to lay out a path, step by step that we must follow, but to create aims that we seek to achieve, and leave the how to the process as it works along.
I will be reading the book, and probably doing an extensive review here, and then after a round of discussion, put up a revised version on some well known pagan website like Witchvox to try and stimulate discussion, and to bring ideas into the consciousness of the great Neo-Pagan community.
It's supposed to be a couple of weeks before the book arrives. I'll let people know when it arrives.
