Wow! Here’s an amazing video by Jeremy Rifkin in which he sketches the evolution of human civilization and posits a vision of a world in which empathy has become the dominant motivating force and human unity is the global reality.
It is obvious to me that our individual identities need to go beyond traditional tribal, religious, and national boundaries to embrace the entire web of life. –t.h.g.
The first edition of my book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing in 2009. While it remains
as relevant today as it was when first published the printed book has been out of print for several years. But, having had the rights reverted to me by my publisher, I am making the entire book available for free in PDF format. You can read it or download it HERE. If you would like a hard copy of the first edition used copies can still be found on Amazon.com, Abe books, Thrift books and elsewhere.
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Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (2001)
New Money For Healthy Communities (1994)
Money and Debt: a Solution to the Global Crisis (1980)
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Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (2001)
Beyond Money
Beyond Money 
This is a good video. I’ve studied mirror neurons for a while, and I find thgis to be a powerful description of how societies develop.
Unfortunately, in earlier societies, such practice led to what psychologists now call narcissism, the linear extension of oneself into his/her environment.
Also, you can see why economics, with its centralized control of issuance, would lead to an extreme corruption of this practice.
Empires formed that destroyed individualized freedom with a one-size-fits-all concept, and it is now the process of informatin that disrupts the dependence on mirror neurons exclusively to form social concepts.
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i believe i have seen babies just watch others cry with disinterest.
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Very good video, thank you.
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