OT Wilber/Shambala interview ("transideological" social trends)

It's actually a pretty cool interview....a lot there....

|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Mark Leith [mailto:mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk]
|| Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:19 AM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: (Fwd) Wilber/Shambala interview
|| ("transideological" social
|| trends)
||
||
|| antidisestablishmentarianism - I know big words too!! :)
||
|| http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mantidis.html
||
|| Really Eric - where do you get all the time from to collate this
|| extraordinarily extensive yet thoroughly interesting psycho
|| babble? :)
||
|| Mark (Eric wannabe)
||
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Pierce
|| Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 07:51
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| trends)
||
||
||
|| (repost for list newcomers)
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|| http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/interviews/Shambhala_intervi
|| ew.cfm/xid,2676
|| /yid,5800264
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|| http://www.scottlondon.com/
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|| http://www.rkey.com/thetazone/
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|| http://www.rkey.com/thetazone/#constructivism
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|| excerpt:
||
|| ...
|| Among its many insights, constructivism adds perspective to the
|| unfortunate historical propensity of humans to objectify the
|| mind as an entity subject to environmental factors.
|| Constructivism is best known as a critique of international
|| relations theories which assert that rational behaviors of
|| nation-states must necessarily conform to the exigencies of an
|| anarchic world system. The framework can be extended to reveal
|| similar patterns in superstitious eschatologies, statements like
|| "The devil made me do it," and a wide range of modern
|| materialist and historicist philosophies, notably extremist
|| forms of Marxism and Social Darwinism.
||
|| The propensity to "blame" environmental factors as an excuse for
|| human behavior has become increasingly sophisticated in recent
|| years, leading to a philosophy of mind that proclaims
|| computerized telecommunication as destiny. Not only are such
|| concepts being promoted with fanatical energy, they are being
|| used to justify social transformations that are increasingly
|| rapid and disruptive. The rising interest in "memes," which
|| holds that ideas acquire people (rather than people acquiring
|| ideas) is an important part of this distressing trend.
||
|| ...
||
|| (by the same guy, an explortion of the struggle between progressive
|| proponents of a model of internet governance based on participatory
|| democracy vs commerical interests :
||
|| http://www.rkey.com/dns/overview.html )
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|| http://www.context.org
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|| http://216.122.74.136//ICLIB/IC03/TOC03.htm
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|| http://216.122.74.136//ICLIB/IC03/CoriGord.htm
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|| http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/FeaturesIssue.html
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|| http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/373.html
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||
|| Sustainable culture:
||
|| http://www.resilientcommunities.org
||
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|| excerpt:
||
|| What's Behind Resilient Communities?
||
|| Something's afoot in the United States, and
|| Canada, and Australia, and Europe, and Asia and
|| Africa -- all over the world. Increasing numbers of
|| people are saying they want a different life than
|| that being offered by industrial-era society. Paul
|| Ray, in his 1997 Integral Culture Survey: A Study
|| of the Emergence of Transformational Values in
|| America says that as much as 25% of
|| populations in industrial countries are looking for
|| a better way of life.
||
|| Why?
||
|| Forces are coming together to shift dynamics in
|| very dramatic ways. There is a growing split
|| between the rich and the poor not only within
|| countries both developed and undeveloped but
|| also, of course, between them. There is a huge
|| increase in population over the last century, which
|| when coupled with production increases, has led
|| to shortages of land, water and clean air. There
|| is growing evidence that global warming and
|| climatic instability, evidenced this year by the
|| number of severe fire and flood problems around
|| the world, threaten current human habitation
|| patterns in significant ways. New forms of
|| nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry are
|| threatening humanity and both nation state
|| rivalries and terrorism create continuing anxieties
||
|| There is an economic crisis as our reliance on
|| economic growth and affluence collides with
|| changing personal commitment and ecological
|| realities. There is a social crisis as growing
|| poverty and growing wealth co-exist on the same
|| planet. There is a moral crisis as our ability to
|| feel outrage about the state of the world is buried
|| by our busyness and statements from economists
|| and politicians that "we have no choice." There is
|| an ecological crisis as fish stocks are
|| overconsumed, fires burn out of control, forests
|| diminish, land erodes. And there is, above all, a
|| spiritual crisis as we lose sight of our real goals
|| and substitute instant gratification in place of a
|| search for true meaning.
||
|| At the same time, the seeds for change are
|| growing. More and more people are beginning to
|| examine the ways in which they are living their
|| lives. Those of us doing so are saying that we
|| want less stress and more time. We're saying we
|| want to have a positive impact on the global
|| environment rather than a destructive one. Many
|| are being drawn to a new emphasis on building
|| healthy relationships and towards exploration of
|| spirituality.
||
|| We are looking for a new way to live -- a more
|| resilient way of life.
||
|| (continued)
|| ...
||
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