Publisher's Synopsis
If you prefer to think outside the box, then this book is for you. It is an insightful, penetrating and far-reaching call to decency, integrity and accountability. The book is a clarion call to reevaluate our man-made world of dogmas, ideologies, myths, and masculine institutions and industries. It is a strongly-worded call to embrace facts and critical thinking; especially, in the face of religious, political and conspiratorial distortions of key human and environmental issues. Can We Do Better? is a clear-minded invitation to informed, rational and values-based citizenship, custodianship and leadership. Necessarily, therefore, this book is a robust call to integrity and accountability in governance. Every chapter invites us to be aware, factual, honest, sensitive, compassionate and responsible. In contrast to the modern prominence of individualistic transactional leveraging, this book advocates values-based relationships, communities and ecologies. We men are invited to confront some ‘inconvenient truths’, and to learn from and internalise Yin-based wisdom. To promote Yin-based wisdom, this book encourages women and First Peoples to step forward as role models, educators, stewards and leaders. In conjunction with Yin-based wisdom, this book argues that a critical mass of us need to embrace holistic and homeostatic systems principles and priorities. ‘Holistic systems wisdom’ is crucial in reducing longstanding fragmentation, harms, suffering and disasters. So … be curious, and read this compelling and innovative book. Look out for the publication of a ‘Companion Workbook’ that is designed to enable you to explore and apply the values and principles in Can We Do Better?
