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 progress they’ve pursued: it’s not equal, it’s not consistent, and it doesn’t make room for everyone. But a new integral force is emerging that can move beyond the narcissism and nihilism of political correctness to offer genuine leadership and move towards a developmental-based wisdom of greater wholeness." (https://integrallife.com/trump-post-truth-world/)
The point of this, this myth, is that in evolutionary terms, a new model will arise that will be superior to what preceded it. It will have more explanatory force and it will be all encompassing. That's to say it will consist of the best of previous models and supersede them.
But all of this misses the point. There is no deficiency in current psychosocial and economic models. What Trump represents and instantiates is a regression. Fukuyama is very perceptive in this context:
https://aeon.co/essays/was-francis-fukuyama-the-first-man-to-see-trump-coming?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9b1a683914-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-9b1a683914-69050461
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 progress they’ve pursued: it’s not equal, it’s not consistent, and it doesn’t make room for everyone. But a new integral force is emerging that can move beyond the narcissism and nihilism of political correctness to offer genuine leadership and move towards a developmental-based wisdom of greater wholeness." (https://integrallife.com/trump-post-truth-world/)
The point of this, this myth, is that in evolutionary terms, a new model will arise that will be superior to what preceded it. It will have more explanatory force and it will be all encompassing. That's to say it will consist of the best of previous models and supersede them.
But all of this misses the point. There is no deficiency in current psychosocial and economic models. What Trump represents and instantiates is a regression. Fukuyama is very perceptive in this context:
https://aeon.co/essays/was-francis-fukuyama-the-first-man-to-see-trump-coming?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9b1a683914-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-9b1a683914-69050461
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