David Korten/Recording Notes

Recording notes:

0' - 4'20" - introduction by Charles Holmes

4'30" - Korten's address begins

13'30" - "I'm not an economist"... but an organization systems analyst.

15'30" - The essence of money

19'40" - "The accountants run the world."

21'00" - From a society based on relationships to a society where everything is mediated by money.

24'20" - Financial institutions move from community-based to deregulated, abstract entities

27'40" - "phantom wealth"

30'15" - faster environmental destruction, concentrated wealth, institutions losing legitimacy, social fabric disintegrating, political system growing more corrupt

31' - the answer begins with a conversation

32' - the way most people are

37' - the creation of the new mainstream... there is hope

38'30" - new communication allowing for empowered grassroots movement, toward a position "true popular sovereignty"

39'15" - end of talk, beginning of dialogue between David Korten and Charles Olson

40'20" - "where does money come from, and who decides who gets it?"

45'45" - "we used to call this debt slavery"

47' - are corporate CEOs psychopaths?

51'- when sins and virtues become inverted