Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Too Far?

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The civil rights movement didn't incorporate gay rights, in same sex marriage and parts of the women's movement. The peace dividend e fizzled out. And then something happened that nobody had foreseen, and that was the inform technology revolution in the 19 nineties. It took the de counterculture a whole decade to absorb and understand this new development. i believe is the greatest legacy of the 19 sixties - we have an international coalition of n g os who work on as, as the slogan goes, another world is possible.

Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.