ABSTRACT
We are living in a fragmented and troubled world at a precarious moment of history. The technocracy that rules modern civilization may be entering its final, desperate phase, its “endgame,” as Derrick Jensen (2006) calls it. The industrial, political and cultural practices of modernity, he argues, are not sustainable, indeed are on the verge of chaotic collapse. Along with Jensen, various prophetic observers, including David Korten (2006), Charles Eisenstein (2007) and Joanna Macy (2006), among others, have recently declared the approaching end of technocracy, the end of empire (Bennett 2007), perhaps even the end of America (Wolf 2007). Indeed, various authors, such as Thomas Berry (1999), Richard Tarnas (2007) and Malcolm Hollick (2006), have asserted that we are experiencing one of those rare historical moments when an underlying world-view, the very basis for defining civilization, collapses and gives way to a new historical era.
