Ken Wilber is my intellectual inspiration for Alt-Middle, which he calls "2nd tier" Integral thinking. This is a video worth watching and then us talking about together. Why are we divided? Why has woke culture gotten out of control? Why is Alt-Middle the way through and out of our current mess?
Ken uses some jargon here: when he's talking about stages of human development, he uses color codes in order of their development in human history: Blue (mythic/magic/dominator hierarchies based on birth like the old churches or tribes), Orange (modern rational thought, universal truths like science, meritocracy, capitalism, power hierarchies), Green (pluralistic, post-modern thought, multiculuralism, truth is culturally constructed, rejects ALL hierarchies as evil even beneficial growth hierarchies, this is where the center of culture is currently), then second tier Teal (Integral/Alt-middle, all views are true but partial, all levels of development are necessary and included, some truths are ...
Fun captioned vertical version of our recent YouTube Live conversation, with no ads, here for Locals fam!
Axe throwing is SURPRISINGLY therapeutic for that recently discovered repressed anger.
10/10, would recommend.
Today's interview with legendary vaccine researcher Paul Offit. Video version coming shortly!
In the recent live someone mentioned the different sleep patterns we've had in the past. It was one of those strange coincidences to me as I'd recently learnt that visiting Little Moreton Hall in England. Built in 1504 and decorated in the great hall with this plaster work celebrating a book written by Robert Recorde (he invented the Equals sign). The book was about the split in human thinking, reasoning, belief...science and magical thinking. Nothing's really changed has it and I'm still wondering what they did when they got up in the middle of a dark, cold night with no electricity to do some chores.
