Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are
producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates
isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that
comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called
a consumer culture.
We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and
inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be
more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up.
There is no such thing as customer satisfaction.
We need a new narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking. An Other
Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place
where life is ours to create together. This satisfying way depends upon
a neighborly covenant--an agreement that we together, will better raise
our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a
livelihood. The neighborly covenant has a different language than
market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue.
Authors Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight invite you on
a journey of departure from our consumer market culture, with its
constellations of empire and control. Discover an alternative set of
beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty,
violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable--a culture in
which the social order produces enough for all. They ask you to consider
this other kingdom. To participate in this modern exodus towards a
modern community. To awaken its beginnings are all around us. An Other
Kingdom outlines this journey to construct a future outside the systems
world of solutions.
