Cultural Evolution

The excerpt this week is from GlobalNewThought  interview with Jim Kenney entitled Cultural Evolution Part 3: THREE BENCHMARKS. How can we identify and understand genuine “new wave” value-shifts? The ideas presented here are developed in depth in Jim’s book called “Thriving in the Cross Current: Clarity and hope in a time of cultural sea change.”
“…today we’re going to be talking about benchmarks that distinguish real evolutionary events, so the question is: how can we identify and understand genuine new wave value shifts? Well those who come to the idea of accelerated cultural evolutionary value shift for the first time, which we’re calling “sea change,” often have difficulty distinguishing between real new wave patterns and other phenomena including declining older wave dynamics….”
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