Why are the Cultural Creatives related to all those movements?
The reason is that all these movements have been doing something new in history. They have been trying to change our minds about what is important and how the world works. There’s a lot more to the movements than just the people on the ramparts, or just the obvious meditators on their cushions, there’s also a huge cultural circle around those active people who are reframing how the world is seen every day. You have to see what a whole movement is: there’s the most active people at the center, but around them like a target, there’s a huge population of less involved people who give the money, read the literature, keep track of what’s happening, and really support it. There may be a few thousand activists, and hundreds of thousands giving money, but tens of millions who are changing their minds and their lives. There is evidence that a typical Cultural Creative cares intensely about, and is often involved in, half a dozen of these new social and consciousness movements, while the rest of
