Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization / Ross Institute Summer Academy 2010

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Jeremy Rifkin's 2010 lecture to Ross faculty discussing the role of empathy in education. He argues that society has been living off outdated ideas that are increasingly dysfunctional and that we need to actively work to change our mode of consciousness. With a belief that human beings are 'soft wired' for empathy, he pleads for educators and society at large to nurture and cultivate this empathy in students in an effort to form a global, biospheric consciousness.
Jeremy Rifkin is founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends. Since 1994, he has been a senior lecturer at Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Rifkin is the principal architect of the EU's Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan and has been influential in shaping public policy both in the US and around the world to ensure responsible government policies on environmental, scientific and technology related issues.
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@DavetheChimp 10 жыл бұрын

after the traumatic first 15 minutes this video was incredibly inspiring. I have shared it through all my social media outlets because I strongly feel that everyone needs to see this. we're stuck in a mind-set where humans somehow believe they are seperate from the rest of the earth, a mind-set capitalist society encourages as it makes us all want to be individuals and live alone, and thus they get to sell us each a refrigerator, tv set and microwave oven. the internet is a beautiful place as we get to share knowledge and ideas like those in this video. so please share! sharing ideas and resources are essential if the human race is going to survive.

@ahavan1 9 жыл бұрын

I am totally resonant with everything he said in this video. I am encouraged because of his leadership in the world.

@SamWise050 11 жыл бұрын

We need to show this speech in theaters across the globe. Translate and distribute.

@jockcalder6357 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Rifkin. You have opened my eyes. I don't know what to do. Though I will do. Jock.

12 жыл бұрын

A world without oil and gold...a world of knowledge, sharing and cultural diversity. Thks for posting this amazing lecture!

@efortune357 10 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Rifkin is on point. "The End of Work" is such a relevant book. Can't wait for his upcoming book "The Zero Marginal Cost Society". If you like Rifkin check out the documentary "Zeitgeist Moving Forward". Lots of overlap

@XSilvenX 13 жыл бұрын

Took me about 3 days to watch but this was Amazing. I suppose I can't blame students in this day and age. Like them, I got the natural yearn for learning beaten out of me by the monotony that is school. Sure, I learned some things...but most of my learning has been done on my own. Self-guided and not force fed in a rushed fashion in a classroom with 29 other students. I think school is a great foundation and a springboard for social relations but the real learning comes after you graduate.

@patrickmcnurlen7260 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jeremy Rifkin, you inspired me to go vegetarian in the 90's and you've inspired me again!

@MsRockdemon 11 жыл бұрын

Bravo Rifkin, very enlightening understanding of humanity's current dire situation.

@JoJoghetto 12 жыл бұрын

One of the best lectures I have listened to on utube. Jeremy Rifkin, amazing teacher.

@milleryusuf9802 2 жыл бұрын

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@crashroots 11 жыл бұрын

rifkin is the best, let´s listen, learn and implement

@chatsociety 11 жыл бұрын

Great talk, rifkin was great!

@rosiethebear300 11 жыл бұрын

Nations and religions extended empathy but also hostility. There is nothing that enforces empathy with others than to have a common enemy.

@neverthelessly 11 жыл бұрын

stunning

@greekelephant 12 жыл бұрын

Awesome !

@jamespoppitz3336 3 жыл бұрын

Good provocative ideas...good mental exercises full of half right and half wrong ideas...look at his career,tells you his right to wrong ratios...he's ahead if the curve in many ways...nice multilevel thinking,good intellectual prowess...wonder how he'd hold up in debate....

@ErnestOfGaia 10 жыл бұрын

I am curious if the educational institutions we currently have can keep up. Currently I am able to work outside with nature using her as a model while at the same time watch great videos like these and others that are more academic. By my best calculations I can learn about biosphere relationships and develop my role within the biosphere faster than our current accepted textbooks can be written for the university press and my information is more current than an out of date hot off the press textbook. I am 35 and one of the biggest observations that I am now able to put together is that when I compare the 10 years that I took to work and get my bachelor's degree and end up in debt with the last 5 years I have been able to re-educate myself and begin to unlearn the damage SOLD to me by my corporate oppressors. I want to make $10 grand a year and save the world with my neighbors and that is what I am doing. It is a shame that I have to undo the damage done to me by our current centralized education system.

@rashadal-safar1931 10 жыл бұрын

i agree, we are getting to the stage where we can simply teach ourselves, but some people need guidance to do this and this where the schools should be headed

@tdevry 12 жыл бұрын

Sadly i have to agree with you.

@Dblue-rhino 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely enlightening. One issue- US does not like Paris Accords because unfair advantage given to China- straighten that out and we can talk! China will not agree..

@TheEpicmonday 12 жыл бұрын

Great talk full of rocksolid facts. And if anyone doubts the soundness of the fundamental social nature of humans, just take a look at the explosive development of social media in the last years. We are definately moving toward global consciousness, the question is whether it will happen in time.

@Thiswaybefore 12 жыл бұрын

This 2nd industrial revolution based economy reached its limits because all thermodinamic systems have an entropic horizon. Behond that horizon lies extinction or evolution. We have reached ours. We will most probably evolve, wich means a lot of people will die in a short amount of time. It will be painfull but that will also means entropy levels will decrease drastically giving us the opportunity to operate structural changes in the way we exist in the biosphere provided we learn something

@BaadTaz 11 жыл бұрын

@haroldhart2688 2 жыл бұрын

Da 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. RIFKIN'S BALONEY MAY SOON BE EXTINCT.

@786swe 12 жыл бұрын

I hate to burst his bubble. He's grossly mistaken about human nature of the selfish gene, a book written by Dawkins.

@dashonhurts 11 жыл бұрын

Stefan Molyneux is a good source for those who may need some awakening to the reality that is arguably the start of social dysfunction. Public Schooling and Religion and Child Abuse. All three of these are intimately connected.

@SleekMinister 11 жыл бұрын

Who or what is keeping you? Let me guess; Shame for dropping out your last year? You know finishing now will be easier than doing courses at night later on? If you answered yes twice, let me tell you; You have no idea how to go about this. As I didn't. Learning autodidacticly is an acquired skill, begotten only after a long time of practice. Don't know your teachers and so on, but I'm guessing You don't get it there. Won't believe you don't have passion, though, Even If it's been stifled lately.

@QuaaludeCharlie 3 жыл бұрын

Oil is Abiotic . It went to 0 Last Year and Davos controls Price Setting . just saying :\ QC

@786swe 12 жыл бұрын

@brennanyoung No I hate to burst your bubble for your delusion despite being made of genes, human as an individual doesn't reflect what the genes they are made up of dictate. What a logic!

@wetubeerman 11 жыл бұрын

talk about bursting bubbles, all this talk of renewable technology is great, but it requires capital, which is in trouble due to the debt we (the entire globe) is in. if we are to have this 3rd industrial revolution, it'll take global collaboration and a total paradigm shit in what we view as money. we leave this work to be decided on whether we can afford it, it's not getting done, despite our survival depending on it. it'll also requires the REST of the carbon energy left on earth, basically.