Here's an excerpt from something I was reading about Animism... www.theharmonyproject.org/nature.html

THE NEW ANIMISM - In the United States, marketing analysts recently have taken note of a new target group that they have dubbed the “cultural creatives," numbering over 50 million people and growing rapidly, nearly a fifth of the American population. Artists, educators, healers, environmentalists and others concerned with the future survival of the individual and of the planet have emerged as forces to be reckoned with (and as potential markets). The women's "consciousness raising" movement, human rights organizations inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's work in India came to the U.S. in the sixties led by black leaders such as the late Rev. Martin Luther King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the "outing" of gays and lesbians especially since the initial wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the maturing of the hippie / yuppies "baby boomers," all are forces which have contributed to major changes in American society and law and form the contemporary American worldview. The "cultural creatives" are for liberal policies on major issues, but further they are concerned with global citizenship - the place of Americans in the world. The ongoing conflict between what in the sixties were called "the peaceniks" and "the hawks" emerges in the millennium with the last election as underlying concepts of open and closed societies - open liberalism versus closed conservativism.


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