THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

Two reasons converge to create that impression of isolation: there is
no organisation that identifies them; - there is no media mirror.
No Organisation
One of the main reasons for its relative invisibility is that this
subculture has not spawned a mass political party, a mass religious
movement, or even a separately identifiable publication market.
Cultural Creatives are by definition eclectics who pick and choose as
their interests lead them, from mainstream to marginal publications,
national as well as foreign. So there is no place or group where they
can actually meet and be counted.
No Mirror
Even more important, the mass media and the political debate, our
mirrors in society, are still completely immersed in the Modernist
subculture, and almost exclusively reflect that viewpoint. Whenever
they refer to the sub- culture of the Cultural Creatives, they tend to
present as typical a caricature of the whole group: the marginal fringe
of 'New Agers', who represent less than 2% of the population (four
million adults). So even when this is reflected, the majority of the 44
million Cultural Creatives do not recognise themselves in this image
either.
This invisibility - even to the members themselves - may be the
most unusual feature of this new subculture.
When Modernism came into fashion from the Renaissance
onwards, the 'Modernizers' knew very well that they were a
movement. Erasmus of Rotterdam and the French Encyclopaedists
had the media of their respective times focusing on every one of their
doings. They were known as a movement by others, and they also