Bernardo Carleial

An excerpt from the Amazing book "Finite and Infinite Games". Which is a criticism of vMEME Orange pragmatism. Made from the perspective of the vMEME Yellow. "To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. Education discovers an increasing richness in the past, because it sees what is unfinished there. Training regards the past as finished and the future as to be finished. Education leads toward a continuing self-discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition. Training repeats a completed past in the future. Education continues an unfinished past into the future. "

"The moving finger of actuality writes faster than the tongue can herald. The structure of language is less fluid than the structure of reality. Just as the thunder we hear is no longer sounding, so the reality we speak about exists no more." This quote was in one of Maslow's books. But I forgot by whom it belongs to....

@VagosBe very careful when pin pointing down one nation into the SD category. All nation in actually has a kaleidoscope of stages. Only those that are predominant in society (that's why it is called a MEME) is counted, for practical reasons. Ancient Greek is tricky because it was divided into city states. But in all ancient civilation you didn't have any vMEME that goes beyond stage BLUE. I would put Athens as VMEME Blue, and Sparta as vMEME Red. However... if you're talk about individuals, (the philosophers for example) you may see a wide range of different world views for example*: Socrates I see him as VMEME Yellow. Plato as VMEME Yellow/Turquoise. And Aristotle as VMEME ORANGE/Yellow. *Note: given the fact that were talking about ancient Greece. Which were some of the earliest civilizations that human being had. I'm aware that their worldviews are very narrow if you compare to 21st century society. What I did here was trying to match the thinking patterns (structure/framework) of these philosophers with the stages of Spiral Dynamics.

Hi Everyone! I'm sharing these very foundational videos that covers the principles and the history of the scientific method that we know today! Enjoy!???

It's important to keep in mind that just because some idea has not permeated into mainstream culture yet doesn't necessarily mean that no one would like it. But certainly this is not for everyone. It's like quantum mechanics ( very counterintuitive and usually goes against our common sense). I agree with what Ken Wilber says about how society transitions from one stage to another. The ideas should be permeated into culture to a significant extent of the population, without necessarily the citizens having to be at that stage already. If at least 20% is already there would be enough. And he actually used the example of the French Revolution (which was a transition from vMEME Blue to vMEME Orange).

Interesting. It's similar to the concept of Mind Mapping and Systems Dynamics (aka Systems Thinking).

"The mind’s first step is to distinguish what is true from what is false. However, as soon as thought reflects on itself, what it first discovers is a contradiction." Albert Camus

I took from a page called "Integral Life". I don't know much about it, but I know the information provided here with regard to the Integral Model is trustable. Because I studied the theory and they seem to have gotten straight from the book. https://integrallife.com/what-is-integral-approach/

@Matt23 thank you so much posting that bro! I will save this book list for myself too!???

Complementing on @Rasheed post

@Rasheed if you like, there is an audiobook version of this book available on YouTube.

How to teach history to stage red people

...Oh and by the way Christopher Nolan is a vMEME Yellow director

I think GTA V suits best to what you're proposing

This is a 2 part documentary about witch trials in 17th century England. The second one in particular is a very good example of vMEME RED/blue. Witch shows how red uses vMEME Blue values and struture in order to justify his self-bias and hatred towards other groups of people.

It's called Systems Innovation.

'how one lives becomes a bio­graphical solution to systemic contradictions' Ulrich Beck I would say that 'how one lives' is more like a 'biographical description' that an actual solution...

I started reading Nietzsche's book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". I find enjoyable his views on morality and "self-actualization". But one thing that made me really disappointed was on how biased was his views on women: very patriachal and somewhat misogynistic. Something that he clearly bought from his own culture. Ironically. Because he's against indoctrination by society. Here's an example: "The happiness of a man says: I will. The happiness of a woman says:he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’ – Thus thinks everywoman when she obeys out of total love. And a woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is a woman’s disposition, a flexible, stormy skin over shallow water. But a man’s disposition is deep, his stream roars in underground caves; woman intuits his strength but does not comprehend it.” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Page 49

This video is a very good example of vMEME Blue, in its excess of tradition and morality, in clash with the egalitarianism of vMEME Green.