RE: Spiral Dynamics and the Houston flooding
Thanks! I know it seems to fit my intellectual and emotional growth over the last 10 years -- started with a feeling that something wasn't right about the current state of medicine, to realizing that something was terribly wrong with our conception of the economy after the 2008 meltdown, to a realization about what was wrong with the chemical farming paradigm, to the realization that all of these systems were similar and that all were experiencing the same types of problems.
The more I read and researched, the more I felt like I was seeing bigger picture patterns than I would have been interested in or would have even had the capacity to see 10 years ago. And of course, that has lead to interest in global politics, and longer wave cycles such as the concept of empire cycles, generational theory like Strauss/Howe, the relationship between energy flow and societal complexity, and what the future will look like.
Wish I could get more reads and interest. I don't even care if people vote on it -- I just want discussion!
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Are you by any chance on Facebook? I have over 15k followers and friends there who are truly amazing, freethinking intellectuals that would appreciate your writings very much. I wanted to share your article there and would love to tag you so you could respond and interact with my friends and followers if that's okay with you? My name is Sarah Abed there, if you're intetested let me know.
I'm not on Facebook, but you are welcome to share any article you wish!
I just shared it on a friends post, here is what she had written and it made me think of your article.
"The reason why we are seeing so many unhappy, non-self loving people who have literally become freak shows in our streets today is because they are being systematically taught to believe that loving oneself as he or she or 'it' is, is not the 'in thing'..
The 'in thing' today is aspiring to become something other than what we were physically born as..
In today's times its all about seeking out a "freeing" fleeting kind of happiness...
The more fleetingly free we act, the more distracted from what is truly important in this life we become.."
Well, that's it right there isn't it?!
Orange level people, trying to use their intellect to improve themselves for personal gain, thinking that fronting as group oriented means they are better people, but meanwhile internally angry and frustrated because they are unhappy at their own internal stubborn self interest.