As the global financial crisis continues and we await the next wave of bad economic news or the details of the next bank to collapse there are some who think that this is all a jolly good thing.
Two comments from conversations I have had recently stay with me.
The first is the notion that we human beings are now starting to get all the input we need to force us to evolve our thinking and our relationship with the planet.
The second emerged from the idea that we are somehow seeing some form of global correction not of value (as the financial analysts and money-people who got us into this mess would have it) but of values.
As our friend and colleague
Lawrence Bloom reminds us, 'when things are breaking down we need to pay attention to the things that are breaking through'