Upgrading to Finance 6.0 and the new capitalism of The Capitalisms
a new experience of space
a new experience of time
a new experience of money
a new experience of
Financing a New Prosperity of Peace in the 21st Century
“the times, they are a changing'”
Bob Dylan
The truth about our uniquely human way of being in the world is that our times are always changing. The only difference from time to time is in the details.
Today, our details are mostly about Space
For time immemorial, humanity has lived as if upon the creative edge of an infinitely receding horizon, out of which we could always take more, and into which the consequences of our taking would disappear, without consequence.
The Frontier.
This has been the defining moment of our human experience, the place where we could find all our new possibilities for making a future history of more that is better for all. Until now.
Today, we are living on the creative edge of a New Frontier, a frontier of new learning about living well and pursuing peace on earth as the place where all our possibilities for living well are to be found.
In 1960, United States President John F. Kennedy committed his Nation’s resources to the mission of putting a man on the moon within this decade, and brining him safely home again.
Nine year later, on July 29, 1969, United States Astronauth Neil Armstrong, Mission Commander of the Apollo 11 Spaceflight, stepped out of the Eagle Lunar Landing Module onto the surface of the Moon taking his historic
“One small step for a man. One giant leap for Mankind.”
But the step Neil took was not the leap we were expecting. Humanity ventured into space expecting to find a New Frontier for exploration and colonization as a truly infinitely expanding horizon, out of which we would actually be able to always take more, and into which the consequences of our taking would truly disappear, without consequence.
Instead, the leap we took was into a New Reality. When we ventured into Space, all we found was rocks. And a vast, unrelenting coldness and emptiness, totally devoid of life, and the essentials for living.
And the earth.
We discovered that we have the earth, and it is well and truly ours.
Also, we discovered that the earth is what we have.
The earth is our garden. We have to become good global gardeners. That is our New Reality in the 21st Century.
This changes everything about our sense of place, our sense of history, our sense of community and our sense of the possibilities.
It also changes our sense of who we are, as humans, and a new story of the history of humanity’s pursuit of prosperity.
“a new and better considered past for the sake of a new and better imagined future”
Re-Imagining Finance
As we better consider our past, we discover the function of Finance as the social structures of value-recognizing patterns, pattern languages, places and professionals through which humanity chooses what our future history can, should and will be made to be.
enterprising individuals see the possibilities
finance provides the money
government both regulates and finances
popular choice decides whether or not enterprise, finance and government are getting it right
The New Frontier
earth peace
and people peace