One City : A Declaration of Interdependence

by Nichtern, Ethan

• ISBN13: 9780861715169
• ISBN10: 0861715160
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-26
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Summary

Welcome to One City - Population: Everyone - Where everything you do matters: What you wear. What you say. what you think / Ignore / Buy / Don't Buy.... You've lived in One City your whole life, whether you've known it or not. And even with all the overcrowding, pollution, and media oversaturation, it's still a great place to be. There may in fact be no better setting for exploring the great truth that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., expounded: "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." With pop-culture savvy, humor, and literary liveliness, Ethan Nichtern melds Dr. King's message with modern Buddhist wisdom to explain how we might best live together - no matter who we are, and no matter where. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ethan Nichtern is the founder of The Interdependence Project, a grassroots movement bringing the principles of meditation and interconnectedness to the arts and activism.

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Day in the Life	p. ix
The Real Internet
The Real Internet	p. 3
The Inadequacy Principle	p. 13
Touching the Net	p. 29
Practicing Interdependence
Meditation and the Colonizing Mentality	p. 57
The Hungry Ghost Is a Shadow Puppet	p. 73
Entertainment Ain't So Entertaining	p. 91
Nonviolence or Nonexistence	p. 107
Gotta Get Paid	p. 121
Cutting Through Infotainment	p. 135
Fearlessness Is Not Brought to You by Reebok	p. 147
Epilogue: Counter-Culture vs. Transformative Culture	p. 155
Getting Started with Meditation	p. 159
Post-Meditation Practice of Interdependence	p. 165
Freestyle Dedication of Merit: A Declaration of Interdependence	p. 171
Acknowledgments	p. 174
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