Yes, a gap, quite a long gap between the last post and this one. There has been a hiatus in our thinking as well. The dominant topic has been Trump. Of course! I watched an episode of Keiser Report on Aljazeera. What was particularly interesting was an interview with Michael Krieger of libertyblitzkrieg.com. He voiced his disatisfaction with the commentariat's views on Trump and spoke about the work of Ken Wilber and Spiral Dynamics. You can read more of Krieger here: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/02/08/how-a-breakdown-in-liberal-ideology-created-trump-part-1/ Here is a link to Wilber's piece on Trump: https://integrallife.com/trump-post-truth-world/ The substance of this position, an integral one is the following: "The election of Donald Trump is an evolutionary self-correction that has been decades in the making — a backlash against the failure of the leading edge of consciousness (postmodernism and pluralism) to acknowledge the lie underlying the prog...