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Charles Eisenstein Pot luck with a philosopher
Thurs/Fri May 9 & 10: 7:30pm Sat May 11: 2:00 & 7:30pm Marriott Center for Dance University of Utah
Tickets: $15 – $30 www.kingtix.com 801-581-7100 Information on Community Events: HereAfterHere.com Facebook.com/HereAfterHere Partially funded by:
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elf-described “degrowth activist” and Occupy Wall Street advocate Charles Eisenstein knows a lot about our cultural mythologies, and he’s watched and documented their decline during his lifetime. He was born in 1967, Yale-educated with a degree in mathematics and philosophy, and during his search for personal meaning he worked variously as a translator in Taiwan, a yoga teacher, herbalist, and teacher at Penn State’s department of Science, Technology and Society. During his youth, he lived in a world in which, he says, “there was nothing wrong with soda pop, in which the Super Bowl was important, in which the world’s greatest democracy was bringing democracy
to the world, in which science was going to make life better and better.” As he matured, he watched vast holes develop in the fabric of this story, the story of our Western culture. “Looking back, I realize that this was a bubble world built atop massive human suffering and environmental degradation, but at the time one could live within that bubble without need of much selfdeception.” The book Sacred Economics, Eisenstein’s book which was published in 2011, explores the thinking he has developed around the fraying of our cultural mythology. The abandonment of the barter system and traditional gift economies, bolstered by the invention of money, has created the “growth for growth’s sake” paradigm currently dominating our economic system. Eisenstein is very much a philoso-