This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Our book today in the Tom Hartman Book Club is revolutionary love by Michael Lerner,

a political manifesto to heal and transform the world.

This is from the introduction. We earthlings need to build a fundamental

change of consciousness into ourselves and in every part of our national and global society

in order to achieve the economic and political

changes necessary to prevent the destruction of the life support system of earth.

In order to end the global and domestic poverty and wealth inequality, to defeat racism, sexism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of xenophobia

to protect human rights, to achieve social, economic and environmental justice, and to achieve lasting global peace.

This new consciousness is possible and can emerge through embracing revolutionary love, the struggle for a caring society,

and a new bottom line in all our economic, political, legal, educational, and cultural institutions.

This manifesto has written to show you how this can happen and how

you can help make it possible.

Liberal and progressive movements need to move beyond a focus on economic

entitlements and political rights to embrace a new discourse of love, kindness,

generosity, and awe.

These are not some new age, smile and be nice formula or let's get into self-transformation

before we change society kind of thinking. I'm calling for both our

American and global societies to embrace a new bottom line so that every economic, political, societal, and cultural

institution is considered efficient, rational, and or productive, not according to the old bottom line of how much these institutions maximize money, power, or ego,

but rather how much they maximize love and generosity, kindness and forgiveness, ethical and environmentally and seeks to enhance our capacity to transcend a narrow utilitarian or instrumental way of

viewing human beings in nature so that we respond to other people as embodiments of

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