Now they are emerging in force and creating all these little imaginal cells all over society. When the big structure comes down those cells will be there. But the wider the understanding of this rebirth process and why we have to go through it, the less we are going to be fearful about the labor pains and the more chance we have of a smooth and non-disruptive transition. I think we are awakening to an awareness that in a very real sense we are cells in the body of the social organism, just as our individual cells are within our body. Our individual cells compete for nutrients, but at the same time they all work together, held together by a kind of common plan, conceptualization, or image.
Society also is both an organism and a collection of organisms.
Each of those organisms also finds itself simultaneously in competition and at the same time in cooperation to create, maintain and guide the whole. So I'm part of this small community, but I'm also part of this bigger organism, and that in turn is part of a bigger one. That's the meaning of stewardship in a broader sense. When you are aware of being part of a larger whole, you just take responsibility for the impacts of your actions. If you pursue this concept of stewardship to the end, it implies a dramatic change in the whole system, including ownership patterns, the prerogatives of owners, stockholders, pension funds, and so on, and the ability of these powerful organizations to shape the world to their special advantage, to the disadvantage of almost all the people in the world.