The emotional vitriol aroused of late by the health care delivery debate has startled both politicians and the press. In fact it was totally predicted. Effective and affordable health care in times ahead will require a whole new kind of maturity in our relationship to life’s ultimate limit—to the fact of death. I’ve written about the looming conundrum addressing this limit presents for years, but we may just now be ready to confront the challenge. As a physician it is a challenge that touches especially close to home. It applies equally whatever a county’s approach to health care delivery. The health care delivery crisis is not just a U.S. crisis. In time it will confront even the countries that now have the most enlightened of policies. Health care expenditures are spiraling [...]
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My new general audience book Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future should be available in prepublication, review copy form in June with formal publication by year’s end. Editorial writers, bloggers, reviewers, and professors interested in receiving a review copy should contact me directly (see contact page.) Two shorter works Humanity at the Threshold—A Brief Introduction to the Concept of Cultural Maturity and Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions will also be released this year. (See ICD Press page for detials.) Charles Johnston.
Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future describes how the future will require not just fresh ideas, but an essential ‘growing up’ as a species. It closely examines this needed next step in our collective development, what it asks of us and what it makes possible. It also examines how these changes are already beginning to happen, in subtle ways altering every part of our human landscape. The book’s core idea, the concept of Cultural Maturity, provides both big-picture perspective for understanding the times we live in and concrete tools for addressing the immense challenges that lie before us. If the concept of Cultural Maturity is correct, it describes changes that are as or more significant than those that brought us modern democratic governance 250 years ago. If it is not correct, it is hard to imagine a healthy and vital human future.
