Futurist Assails U.S. Foreign Policy

Why has the U.S. started doing the exact opposite of that long-standing bumper sticker wisdom, Think Globally, Act Locally?

(PRWEB) June 1, 2004 --San Francisco futurist John Renesch, author of Getting to the Better Future, has long been an advocate of consciousness change as an antidote for most of the world's problems. In a recent public talk at The Presidio Dialogues he cited the long-popular bumper sticker "Think Globally, Act Locally" as a wise formula for a sustainable and equitable future for the world.

"Despite the wisdom in this slogan," he said,"present day U.S. foreign policy seems bent on the exact opposite - "Think Locally, Act Globally."

He strongly criticized the so-called "Bush Doctrine" for its fear-driven, imperialistic strategy or what some are calling "empire building." He points to the imperative spelled out in the September 2000 Report to the Project for the New American Century, the neoconservative foundation.

"This Report is at the core of the present foreign policy and it calls for world domination," states the 67 year old former businessman. "I was raised with the idea that the U.S. was the world's 'good guy' and we have turned into being the world's biggest bully. We are clearly taking advantage of our lone Super Power status but I think our national 'hubris' is showing."

Renesch wonders whether the general population is aware of how dramatic this policy change is or whether they are aware of it and still support it. "It could be that we are so traumatized by September 11, 2001 that we are backing this new plan out of fear.

"Either way, we are losing the soul of our democracy," he says.