Over the last month or so, Tikkun has been publishing a wonderful series of memos, written by concerned and thoughtful citizens to President-elect Obama. Here's an excerpt from one of Rabbi Michael Lerner's recent letters to the President. Furthering my earlier thoughts on what those words "be realistic" are allowed to mean. And fuel for the hopes of us idealists, who still hope to see this new administration help to set in motion changes in paradigm, as well as in legislation.
"People who have bought into the dominant worldviews in American society think of success in primarily material terms....
President Obama, the most important challenge you face is to reverse that notion of what it is to be rational in the contemporary world. You must reject the current vision of “being realistic” and explain to Americans why that notion is based on a mistaken calculation of our interests as Americans and as members of the human race. You must help people understand that the old way of looking at the world, the Old Bottom Line, is dysfunctional and leads to the dissolution of American society and to the destruction of the planet....
Sound like a daunting task? It doesn’t have to be if you turn to the American people...There are already tens of millions of people who share this consciousness, but they have no way of recognizing each other and moving together as a political entity...
(read his very practical suggestions toward this end, and the entire article, at http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0901/frontpage/ml)
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