The From the Wilderness readership represents the richest accumulation there is of practical wisdom about institutional deviancy in America. This is a readership of people who have the wisdom to face the greatest risks and who can help me figure out how we build wealth in a way that outperforms and bests those risks. My interest lies in developing economic maps and tools that will help us reengineer our investment of time and money to support sustainable spiritual solutions. Integrating spiritual principles into our management of resources is a necessary step to realizing the blessings and avoiding the risks of our new technologies. The economic models that we used in an industrial age are not compatible with the developments of the last three decades.
New technology increases our interdependency.
That increases the damage that our mistakes can do to each other. If we want a practical example of how this works, step back and take a look at how Y2K will impact our lives. We get a big mess. That's my approach. While a jail term is a more appropriate response to Bill Clinton's and George W. Bush's past conduct than the rewards they seek and receive, punishment and scapegoating are not transformative strategies.