*William Ophuls* # Progressive Summary Draws on lots of different sources to make the point that we need to transition to an ecological civilisation. Politics has to be based on face-to-face relationships. The Jungian soul has to be fed with beauty and eros. We have to live within thermodynamic and ecological limits. Humility, balance and connection are the primary values. In politics, as in everything else, we need to replace the machine metaphor with the Gaia metaphor. Ophuls has a gift for pithy but powerful statements. For example, "Our pursuit of economic wealth is impelling us toward thermodynamic bankruptcy." There is resonance with Thomas Berry's [[The Great Work]] and Cullen's [[wild # Definitions # Chapter Notes # Quotes # References Robert Ornstein, The Right Mind: https://archive.org/details/rightmindmakings00orns/page/58/mode/2up (anticipates McGilchrist's work on the brain hemispheres)