The difference is that Consrrvatives operate in the world in which we actually live and work. Meanwhile Progressives seemingly want their ideological changes at any and all costs.
I disagree, as evidenced by trying to overturn elections, sweeping anti-abortion laws, “don’t say gay” restrictions on speech, corporate lobbying, and regulatory capture. Did you hear how Missouri is trying to make abortions for ectopic pregnancies illegal?
I think you have some outdated stereotypes about progressives that are reinforced by your own media bubbles. The left also lives in the world where we actually live and work, which is why they emphasize things like social safety nets, because they can see how many people are falling through the gaps of the world they live in. And why they push for climate change solutions, because they see the world where they actually live and work becoming increasingly unstable and unsustainable.
I disagree, to the extent that much of our inflation is coming from selfish profiteers who are capitalizing on the chaos produced by covid and the culture wars. The price of oil, I understand, has recently gone down 20%, but prices remain the same at the pump, while the oil companies continue to pull in a historically high profit margin. Corporate-controlled media is exactly what gives cover to this sort of malignancy, by keeping people focused on the amber vs. green culture wars while MOM laughs its way to the bank.
I personally think this is why our culture wars went into overdrive after the OccupyWallStreet movement way back when, because that was the first time MOM actually felt any real threat from the pitchforks. We quickly learned how easy it is to keep people locked into unresolvable LL conflict, so that real LR accountability and transformation can be prevented.
Wait, really? We are ALWAYS talking about cognitive stages of development. It’s not the only important line of development, but it is primary, being “necessary but not sufficient” for the development of almost all our other lines.
You are being generous with your “top 1/5 of cognitive ability” estimate. I’d say it’s more like the top 3-5%, developmentally who are capable of actually understanding this material, and who are capable of making their own subject into object long enough to dislodge themselves from whatever narrow ideology they’ve grown up in.
If a person hasn’t yet grown through green, then there is very little of Integral that they are actually capable of understanding.
Of course, when the U.S. was founded, we had a very similar challenge — the vast majority of the world was at red and amber stages, while Orange was only at about 10% of the population or so. But as Ken sees it, 10% is just about the right number where we start to see the developmental avant garde beginning to seep into culture, creating the potential for a new “tipping point” that can send history in a completely new direction.
The same with the 20th century, when we saw about 10% or so of the population at the new Green stage of development, which then spilled over into civil rights, environmentalism, etc.
The hope is that organizations like Integral Life can act as an attractor to help eventually facilitate a new “tipping point” where integral values begin to trickle down into the rest of our culture, and we can recognize the need for a new kind of leadership that transcends the petty divisions between narrow 1st-tier ideologies.
Just as we wouldn’t expect a 6 year old to understand LGBTQ+++ arguments
It’s funny, because I remember talking to my daughter about “LGBTQ+++ arguments” at about that age. In a very basic way, of course — sometimes boys can love other boys, and girls can love other girls, and that is perfectly okay. Some kids have two moms, some kids have two dads, and that is also perfectly okay. Love is love, and you are allowed to love anyone you want to love. You know, the sort of very basic conversation that is now illegal to have in Florida schools, due to conservative restrictions on free speech.
She was 100% capable of understanding this.
That said, yeah, there is a real “pearls before swine” issue when it comes to having integral conversations publicly. Largely because pre-integral folks find their way into those conversations, and try to assert their own ideological narratives and assumptions.
People are constantly looking for a reason to disagree, and to completely write off someone else’s perspective because it does not fit cleanly into their own ideology. It takes a genuinely integral mind to step out of that sort of matrix.
