Thursday, March 7, 2013  Social change: How we got here, how we
get there      Today I'm presenting two extraordinary
lectures with overlapping themes. Both involve theories of co-
evolution specifically in development of our social relations,
our technological advances, and our place in the natural world .
The first is a 25-minute commentary by David Harvey. The second,
much longer one is from Jeremy Rifkin filmed at the Ross
Institute.  "We have masses of capital and masses of labor,
unemployed, side by side in a world full of social need. How
stupid is that?"     In this film Mr. Harvey comments on the
importance of bringing together a mental conception of the world
that includes understanding our relations to each other, the
technology we use and the natural world order. He suggests we
consider how these correlate and form an evolutionary theory of
social change. Mr. Harvey, a scholar of economic history, notes
that Marx understood these connections, and if we want to
imagine a way out of the current crisi