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Closing Vision: The New Deal Formula and a Movement with Magic
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Jones brings his argument home with memorable symmetry. For tech: a little less greed and speed, a little more sharing and caring. For the grassroots: a little less shame and blame, a little more space and grace [1] — Van Jones "The answer is simple to state and hard to do: tech needs less greed and speed, more sharing and caring; activists need less shame and blame…" 19:05 . Put those two moves together, he says, and what emerges is a movement with enough magic, genius, hope, love, and power to create something extraordinary. And that creation — whatever it turns out to be — will someday be the ancestral intelligence for our children. It is a quietly radical idea: that the wisdom tradition we are trying to recover is not only behind us but also ahead of us, waiting to be built right now. The audience receives it with sustained applause.
The answer is simple to state and hard to do: tech needs less greed and speed, more sharing and caring; activists need less shame and blame, more space and grace. Put those together and you get a movement with enough magic to become the ancestral intelligence of the future.
