A Comment from a Reader of "Being and Doing"
You equate Doing with accomplishment and Being with "community, connection with the earth, and the quality of one's experience." It seems to me that your definitions of Doing and Being are thus, respectively, Ken Wilber's "Ego Camp," with its emphasis on agency, and "Eco Camp," with its emphasis on communion. And as he notes ("Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" Chap. 12), in "flatland," the more of one of these, the less of the other. And it's definitely true that in American culture at least, "Doing" seems to be winning (and as you accurately point out, that's not a very good thing!).
I would alternatively define Being as pure non-dual awareness, and thus Being is the ground of Doing. Thus it is actually impossible to separate Being from Doing, although the illusion obviously occurs. It seems at its heart that getting rid of the illusion of ego, which is Doing itself, is what the "current dilemma" (I realize it may no longer be a dilemma) you discuss is really about. (At least this is true in my case.) Nothing less than awakening itself!
Not that I am awakened yet, but as I understand it, once one is, things get done, perhaps articles and books get written, or whatever, but there is no longer a separate self "doing" any of it (in fact, never was). One knows oneself as pure Being, and the dilemma you discuss is thus radically solved.
Yeah, easy to say, but...
Doug Hanvey