This rising discontent will spread from the developing world to the comfort of our own homes in the West. Once the harsh realization sets in that the economy is not in ‘recovery,’ but rather in a Depression, and once our governments in the West continue on their path of closing down the democratic façade and continue dismantling rights and freedoms, increasing surveillance and ‘control,’ while pushing increasingly militaristic and war-mongering foreign policies around the world (mostly in an effort to quell or crush the global awakening being experienced around the world), we in the West will come to realize that ‘We are all Tunisians.’

The Tao of Democracy begins with seemingly innocuous question: “What would intelligence look like if we took wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity seriously?” While many of us probably believe in wholeness, interconnectedness, and co-creativity, how good are we at actually practicing them? And how easily do we discard them when they become inconvenient for us?