This controversial essay by leading futurist Michael Marien, adapted from a presentation at the Association for Humanistic Psychology Twentieth Annual Meeting in Washington (1982), is seen as an initial probe into the vast and vexing problem of why so little humane, transformational change actually takes place.
Summary
Belief that a social transformation is happening serves to keep it from happening. Behaviors associated with the sandbox of political impotency include: pronouncement of actual or imminent success, confusion of goals and results, an acritical stance, hubris, an incapacitating dialect, pseudo holism, egalitarian blinders. and self-centeredness. Upward growth to escape the Sandbox Syndrome is a necessary ingredient of any serious social change.
http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/mm/sandbox.htm
Summary
Belief that a social transformation is happening serves to keep it from happening. Behaviors associated with the sandbox of political impotency include: pronouncement of actual or imminent success, confusion of goals and results, an acritical stance, hubris, an incapacitating dialect, pseudo holism, egalitarian blinders. and self-centeredness. Upward growth to escape the Sandbox Syndrome is a necessary ingredient of any serious social change.
http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/mm/sandbox.htm
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