Call to Action

The fragile and precarious state of our world is a grim and daunting challenge. An unprecedented combination of mutually reinforcing crises portends the collapse of civilization and threatens the future of Planet Earth, unless urgent and drastic solutions are found — and within sufficient time. 

Erich Fromm's gloomy but all too prescient observation signifies the dread and apprehension. Fromm's words:

• "This time, mankind is at one crossroad where the wrong step could be the last step."  

Fromm's observation corroborates the horror that other global analysts variously portray as: 

• "Apocalypse." 
• "imminent collapse of civilization."
• "disintegration of society." 
• "impending convulsion and chaos." 
• "breakdown of our cultural patterns." 
• and so on.

There are even fears that the Earth is heading for mass extinction. A recent United Nations Report and a BBC podcast portray an ecosystem (Nature) that is rapidly collapsing, and a Planet that seems to be (or is) heading for its catastrophic demise.

Daunting and deeply troubling! 

What is even more troubling is the growing ineffectiveness of traditional solution approaches. Hence, the twin questions:

• Are the modern crises unsolved because they are too difficult to solve?
       
• Or, might it be that we've been tackling the wrong problems?

Analysis and synthesis of the insights that are brought together in Creativity: Revealing the Truth about Human Nature suggest, contrary to popular belief, that the dreadful situation the world is facing is not “economic,” “social,” “political,” or “environmental” crises, per se. Our difficulties are not separate crises, either. And they, certainly, are not due to “human depravity” or assumed “human propensity to evil.”   

The result of the analysis identifies our present difficulties as, fundamentally, a global creativity crisis.

• This is the inability of the vast majority of people to reach their full potential — inability to recognize, to develop, and to engage one's natural abilities in meaningful and beneficial functions. Resultantly, widespread sense of futility (meaninglessness), of which many psychological, social, economic, political, and ecological crises are the symptoms. 

To the extent that fundamental misconceptions about human nature and the resultant global creativity crisis are valid, solving climate change and other life-threatening crises the world is experiencing, and building a viable and sustainable global future require us to: 

• Set right the way we define ourselves and the purpose of our life.     
  

In other words: 

• Recognize our inherently and primarily creative essence which is in perpetual need of actualization and fulfillment.
   
• Align all public policies, all business decisions, and all social actions with our quintessentially creative nature. Simply put: Let everything we do seek to satisfy the real need of human nature.
  
  
• Create, provide, and maintain ample opportunities for everyone to find, to follow, and to fulfill his/her passion, his/her path, his/her authentic purpose in life. 

• Give considerable attention to inner development of people as ethically, morally, socially, and ecologically responsible beings: So that everyone recognizes his/her own unique abilities as a global asset, rather than a personal competitive advantage.