b'We started down this fast lane of cultural evolution when the world was big and corporations were small. As the economy grew, we substi-tuted the divine right of capital for the divine right of kings, 23enabling global projects of exploration, extraction, manufacturing and consump-tion. As the economy grew, we outstripped all other species not only in our ability to cooperate, but in our ability to overshoot ecological limits. Today, were peering into cyberspace and territories of unlimited techno-logical innovation, overshooting the economic myths that got us here. You know we are experiencing mythic tremors beneath our economic thinking when everyone from Vanguard founder John Bogle, financial entrepreneur at the level of trillions of dollars, to Marjorie Kelly, former publisher of Business Ethics magazine, has invoked Thomas Paine. 24Observes Kelly:As Thomas Paine memorably put it, There is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In our case the island is Manhattan, where Wall Street resides, and the continent is virtually our entire economy. At a certain point, exclusive stockholder governance may have made some sense. But at a certain point, it stops making sense. Again, as Paine said of Americas governance by England: There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease. 25Where, oh where, is that certain point? When, oh when, is the proper time? 23 See Marjorie Kellys The Divine Right of Capital (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001). 24 Bogles reference to Thomas Paine appeared earlier. Bogle also cites a much less frequent Paine observation that the more simple anything is, the less liable it is to be disordered. See p. 197 of Bogles Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).25 The Divine Right of Capital, Marjorie Kelly (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001), p. 9674'