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We offer materials about all aspects of our life that may lend help for developing
an alternative complex ecological way of living. Since spring 2020, we have been
posting dozens of concrete pointers for collective action. The Wayout manual will
be built partly from these concrete recommendations for action — hopefully to be
published in the near future with a narrower focus than originally intended.
Age of prophets
It is in everyones interest to transition as smoothly as possible from consumerist
culture to a new ecological culture (Takäcs-Sänta 2016b). At present, we are living
in a transitional period and a period of transition is always an age of prophets. It
is the historical situation that calls prophets to life. When the sense of responsibility
is awakened in a person by the crisis, he/she cannot help becoming a prophet, as
he/she has no other choice (Fromm 1986). But at the same time, prophets must
not be over-mystified: their job is not to change the world alone; it is enough for
most of them to concentrate on their own context, their own settlement. They
must spread values such as ecological sustainability, moderate living, love of the
place, importance of the community, solidarity and civilian courage in their narrow
environment. In the spirit of these values and of a new ecological worldview, they
have to join forces with others to build a new social and economic establishment
that is more ecological and just than what exists today.
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