Given the current financial and economic predicament, Parker Palmer, Quaker, educator and founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, speaks in this sobering 25 minute interview of our tendency to deny reality and live in illusion, the role of cultural "anesthetics" in the maintenance of illusion, and the importance of holding a creative tension between what is and what is possible without prematurely seeking to dissipate the tension. A word caution - this is not a feel good discussion and is one that is likely to evoke agreement and disagreement. Nontheless it does feel like an honest discussion.
via pbs.org