our o ost on ays of tryg to address our toughest cial challens are the extree ones: aggressive ar and subissive peace neither of these ays orks e can try, g our guns or oney or votes, to ph through hat e ant, regardless of hat others ant-but evitably the others ph back or e can try not to ph anythg on anyone-but that leaves our situation jt as it is

these extree ays are extreely on, on all scales one on one, e can be phy or nflict averse at ork, e can be bossy or "go along to t along" our unities, e can set thgs up that they are the ay e ant the to be, or e can abdicate national affairs, e can ake deals to t our ay, or e can let others have their ay ternational retions-hether the challen is cliate chan or trade rules or peace the iddle east-e can try to ipose our tions on everyone else, or e can negotiate endlessly these extree, on ays of tryg to address our toughest cial challens ually fail, leavg stuck and pa there are any exceptions to these neralizations about the prevalence of these extree ays, but the fact that these are exceptions proves the neral rule e need-and any people are orkg on developg-different, unon ays of addressg cial challens: ays beyond these denerative fors of ar and peace

a character rent, jonathan rn's

oaday ical about strugglg artists and icians ne york city, says, "the opposite of ar isn't peace, it's creation!"1 to address our toughest cial challens, e need a ay that is neither ar nor peace, but llective creation ho can e -create ne cial realities?

o fundaental drives

to -create ne cial realities, e have to ork ith o distct fundaental forces that are tension: poer and love this assertion reires an expnation becae the ords "poer" and "love" are defed by any different people any different ays this book i e o unual defitions of poer and love sugsted by theologian and philopher paul tillich his defitions are ontological: they deal ith hat and hy poer and love are, rather than hat they enable or produce i e these defitions becae they rg true ith y experience of hat practice is reired to address tough challens at all levels: dividual, group, unity, ciety

tillich defes poer as "the drive of everythg livg to realize itself, ith creasg tensity and extensity" poer this sense is the drive to achieve one's purpose, to t one's job done, to gro he defes love as "the drive toards the unity of the separated"2 love this sense is the drive to rennect and ake hole that hich has bee or appears franted these o ays of lookg at poer and love, rather than the ore on ideas of oppressive poer and roantic love represented on the ver by the grenade and the rose, are at the re of this book

our full orld

e cannot address our tough challens only through drivg toards self-realization or only through drivg toards unity e need to do both often e assue that all it takes to create ethg ne-hether bess or politics or technology or art-is purposefulness or poer this is becae e often assue that the ntext hich e create is an epty orld: an open frontier, a hite space, a bnk canvas neral this assuption is rrect

let's look at a historical exaple 17,

itish settlers arrived atralia and enuntered the dino people ho had arrived 40,000 years earlier this history ilstrates not only the ura and entrepreneurialis of people illg to travel across the globe to create a ne cial reality, but al the huan and elogical devastation that this pioneerg d-set can produce for ore than o centuries, the nflict beeen settlers and aborigal peoples atralia as fraed ters of the doctre of terra nulli, a roan legal ter that eans "nd belongg to no one," or "epty nd" it as not until 1992 that the high urt of atralia ruled that the ntent had fact never been terra nulli, and that the odern-day settlers had to ork out a ne ay of livg tother ith the aborigal people

none of lives terra nulli e can pretend that our orld is epty, but it is not our earth is creasgly full of people and buildgs and cars and piles of garba our atosphere is creasgly full of carbon dioxide our ciety is creasgly full of diverse, strong, petg voices and ideas and cultures this fullness is the fundaental rean hy, order to address our toughest cial challens, e need to eploy not only poer but al love

a challen is tough hen it is plex three ays3 a challen is dynaically plex hen cae and effect are terdependent and far apart space and tie such challens cannot suessfully be addressed piece by piece, but only by seeg the syste as a hole a challen is cially plex hen the actors volved have different perspectives and terests such challens cannot suessfully be addressed by experts or authorities, but only ith the engaent of the actors theselves and a challen is neratively plex hen its future is fundaentally unfailiar and undetered such challens cannot suessfully be addressed by applyg "best practice" tions fro the past, but only by grog ne, "next practice" tions

the fullness of our orld produces this threefold plexity e can pretend that e are dependent and that hat e do does not affect others and hat others do does not affect , but this is not true e can pretend that everybody sees thgs the sae ay, or that our differences can be relved purely through arket or political or legal petition, but this is not true and e can pretend that e can do thgs the ay e ays have, or that e can first figure out and then execute the rrect anser, but this is not true

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