The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World

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The underlying themes express serious ecological and planetary perspectives, emphasis on relationships and women's point of view, commitment to spirituality and psychological development, disaffection with the large institutions of modern life, including both left and right in politics, and rejection of materialism and status display. They are very concerned with advancing their own knowledge and have made a commitment to lifelong learning.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Visionaries and futurists have been predicting a change of this magnitude for well over two decades. These creative, optimistic millions are at the leading edge of several kinds of cultural change, deeply affecting not only their own lives but our larger society as well. We are a leading project and production management company based in Edinburgh and North East England and operating worldwide.Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and "making it," on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? The characteristics of cultural creatives incorporate a wide variety of traits related to environmentalism, personal growth and social business. Many tend to be yoga instructors/students, holistic health counselors, nutritionists or personal trainers.

Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in their 2000 publication Cultural Creatives, estimated that 50 million adult Americans focus on values that actively support the goal of ensuring everyone can pursue enough money, meaning, and friends to thrive, including an aggressive approach toward mitigating the problems of climate change. We are not yet connected in ways that give us the common experience of changing the world together to reflect these values.While Modernists continue to press for free-market, deregulation, freedom to use the environment as you wish, lower taxes, etc. Bill Gates spoke at the World Economic Forum 2008 on the need for 'creative capitalism' as a solution to the world's problems. They reveal who the Cultural Creatives are and the fascinating story of their emergence over the last generation, using vivid examples and engaging personal stories to describe their distinctive values and lifestyles. A cultural creative is a person with a strong concern for personal development and self actualization. The underlying values that support these ideas include fairness, society-mindedness, global-mindedness, and the diffusion of power from the hands of the few.

In her forties, settled in Northern California, she was writing about questions that wouldn't go away. The evidence is not only in the numbers from our survey questionnaires but in the everyday lives of the people behind those numbers. This number may seem high to many of us because one thing Cultural Creatives have in common is the feeling of being alone in our values.To their amazement, the evidence suggested that there are at least as many Cultural Creatives across Europe as we reported in the United States. And if the rest of us are blind to the paradoxical gifts that their awakening brings, then we may well be left wondering where all the changes are coming from. Recommended reading for anyone committed to holistic living by participating in the growing global spiritual movement. Since the 1960s, 26 percent of the adults in the United States -- 50 million people -- have made a comprehensive shift in their worldview, values, and way of life -- their culture, in short.