WE NEED DREAMERS: How shall we respond to the enormous difficulties we face as individuals and as a global society – war, terrorism, addictions, and the harm done to women and to people of color? We set up geographical borders and try to push them on the people of the Middle East to resolve their conflict, but it is not sustainable. We send people to treatment programs for substance abuse, but most relapse. We try to create a better world through revolutions and movements, but the new status quo ends up abusing and oppressing people in the same way that the old status quo did. We look at the problems of people of color and hope that some legislation and time will make it go away, yet the color line still remains one of the fundamental facts and tension points in America and much of the world. What can we do? We need dreamers who imagine outside the box, outside of our current paradigms, offering new ways of understanding, facilitating, and building deeper relationships with each other. Einstein reminds us that, “The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” Excerpted from my earlier Psych Today post: psychologytoday/blog/is-psychology-making-us-sick/201405/7-ways-dreams-enrich-our-lives
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:46:31 +0000
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