Renewable energies have become very common, everyone talks about organics and goes shopping at farmers markets, and Andrew Yang’s thing was a universal basic income. If you’re no vegan yourself you surely have several friends who are, and the MeToo Movement and the Weinberg trial are bringing about a truer conversation about what women’s equality actually means. But did you know that they all belong to the same bigger conversation, an actual cultural and consciousness shift that bakes them all together under a huge umbrella?

It may be the biggest movement you never heard of. Ray and Anderson, authors of the 2000 book The Cultural Creatives, called it the “emergence of an entire subculture of Americans (and Europeans, and Japanese, as they point out). “Because Cultural Creatives are not yet aware of themselves as a collective body, they do not recognize how powerful their voices could be.” That was 20 years ago, and it seems that they/we are still not aware of how big of a body of change agents they/we collectively are.

Where do you think the sudden rise of a social-democratic movement in this country came from, and Bernie Sanders’ appeal in 2016 and now again? The self-awareness and passion of this younger generation, other than the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg who already has plenty, still needs to mature into true activism for change out of self-awareness. But it’s bubbling up everywhere. It’s encouraging, but it also rattles an older, more conservative generation that’s apprehensive about change.

See more posts on this cultural shift – on the incoming Aquarian energy, on Modern Monetary Theory, on new right brain culture, and on the crack in the story, among many more you’ll find in my blog archive.

May you see this new story emerging with excitement, and may you be as inspired as I am.