engineer vs shaman
Michael Brownstein's interview with John Perkins ends with John's vision for reshaping capitalism -- a theme resonant with using "capitalism to transform capitalism" (Daniel Pinchbeck's Aikido-reminiscent phrase). In this way, John Perkins seems to suggest applying a Shamanic mental visioning model to evolve contemporary capitalist culture.
When I met John after he spoke in San Francisco a few months ago, I asked John (something along the lines of) if he thought it might not be possible to develop a new field of Aikido corporations (that, in essence, "use capitalism to transform capitalism") so that eventually there would be a long, robust and expanding list of such Aikido corporations to *critically* supplement the other lists of corporatocracy-inflecting resources he had collected as go-to resources in the appendix of his latest book -- which resources, from the Shaman/Aikido-perspective, appear to be rather more TRADITIONALLY-SHAPED counterforces to contemporary capitalist culture.
John's response? "Go do it!"
Re-engineering the nature of capitalism (of humanity's dominant cultural dynamo) would be a rather adolescent-capitalist-era-culture-esque (anthropogenic/machine-era) way of describing a vision for consciously invoking renaissance - with rough metaphorical equivalents of step-by-step shamanic shape-shifting of the corporate soul, capitalism, and contemporary culture via one-by-one re-intentioning/re-architecting/re-souling/re-chartering individual new entrepreneurial corporations, applying the sublime, irrepressible and transformative powers of nature and truth in an inspired re-engineering of itself/ourself (humanity).
(The above was originally posted at http://www.realitysandwich.com/john_perkins_corporate_hit_man_american_shaman#comment-1344 )
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