Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 3 – A New Cultural Vision

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this final episode of our 3-part series, "Welcome to Frome", we explore possible futures for the small Somerset town of Frome. In this episode, we'll talk to some of the leading experts on why GDP and economic growth are flawed measures of wellbeing. Then we'll travel to a small kingdom in south Asia, an indigenous village in the sierras of Peru, and the headquarters of Happy City in Bristol. We'll talk to the visionaries of new cultural paradigms. and ask them to reveal the secrets of happiness and wellbeing that are hidden right beneath our noses. How can Frome adopt a wellbeing strategy that helps to further the movements we discussed in episode 1 and which begins to bridge the divides we explored in episode 2? There's no simple solution, but we hope that this series will provide some food for thought in towns and cities like Frome all over the world. Featuring: Ha Vinh Tho PhD - Program Development Coordinator of GNH Centre in BHutan Martin Whitlock - Businessman, author, Co-Founder of StopGDP.org Inez Aponte - Founder of Growing Good Lives Martin Kirk - Co-founder of The Rules Liz Ziedler - Co-Founder of Happy City Richard Wilkinson - Co-author of The Spirit Level Maria Scordialos- Co-Founder of The Living Wholeness Institute Annabelle Macfadyen - Co-organizer, Home in Frome Music by: Molly Murphy (a million creatures) Annabelle Macfadyen Frome Street Bandits Theme music by Lanterns (Robert Raymond & Molly Murphy)

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0:00.0	Oh. You are listening to Upstream. Upstream. Upstream. Upstream. A
0:29.0	Radio documentary series that is part of the Economics for Transition project.
0:34.0	I'm Dela Duncan and I'm Robert Raymond.
0:37.0	Join us as we journey upstream.
0:39.0	To the heart of our economic system and discover
0:42.0	cut-in-edge stories of game-changing solutions based on connection,
0:46.8	resilience and prosperity for all. Imagine that you're standing in a store you're there to buy a toothpaste lying in
1:11.4	front of you neatly on the, you see all of your choices. Which
1:16.2	do you reach for? Do you automatically scan for the cheapest tube? Would you rather have toothpaste
1:22.2	made with all organic ingredients or all natural?
1:26.8	How far away was it made?
1:28.8	Does the company treat its employees well?
1:32.0	And what about you? How much money do you have to make this purchase?
1:37.0	And how much time do you have to make this decision?
1:41.6	Regardless of what you ultimately reach for, even if it is the least expensive choice,
1:47.3	there are other things that are important to you besides monetary value. We are not homoeconomicus, even if our current economic system acts as if we are.
2:00.6	The human being that underlies the current economic system, the so-called
2:05.5	homoeconomicus, is actually sort of a monster. This is Dr. Havinto, the program director of the Gross National Happiness Center in Bhutan.
2:17.0	Like a purely selfish, purely rational, being competitive, just trying to maximize its own profit at any cost,
2:27.8	and minimize so-called disutilities like work. And so I think that's and in a way you could say the current
2:37.8	economic system is a self-fulfilling prophecy you say okay that's the way
2:41.2	human beings are so let's create a system that fits to these people and that's a system that you get a system that is heartless solace
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