Infinity16

I think that's a very fascinating topic. A large essay could be written on how spiral dynamics applies to types of government and modes of government. A type of government is based on how power is distributed. Dictatorships and warlord states are stage red. Monarchies are stage blue. Democracy is stage orange/green. A mode of government is based on the fundamental structure. Empires as you described them are stage red. The purpose of an empire is to enable the dominant group to benefit from subjugating others. The nation-state is a stage blue mode of government. In the age of democracy, empires are difficult to justify, yet technology favors scale. Nation-states feel a stronger drive towards assimilation than empires do because nation-states are supposed to represent every citizen. This then got me thinking about what a stage orange mode of government would look like. Perhaps in a hyperglobalized world in which 3D printing has drastically reduced the scale of violence, city states will be run like corporations and people who work online will vote with their feet. Even if you have an iphone, it doesn't mean that you live in a country with good infrastructure, healthcare, economic opportunity, or human rights. Also, your analogy about tea and orange juice falls apart when you go to a place that is very diverse like New York City. There, you get to witness various different cultures. You can pretty much try every single culinary dish on planet earth.

Culture and traditions start at stage purple. Orange is an inversion of purple, meaning that it is the opposite in every conceivable way. You might have some powerful id in stage red, yet might have an ego in a much higher stage.

That's certainly the main reason why the alt right hates immigration. All the stuff about how migrants are criminals, taking people's jobs, and becoming a liability to the welfare state are just talking points that they use to sell to everyone else. The reactionaries fear not that immigrants won't integrate but that they will. They fear that mass migration will dilute their culture. This would obviously not be persuasive to those in stage orange which does not care about culture in the slightest. Perhaps tellingly, a poll of each state in Germany shows that those most likely to think that Germany was welcoming in too many migrants tended to reside where there were very few of them.

My post isn't about keeping migrants out to keep fascists from winning elections (that would be European politicians). It's about the stages that the migrants themselves are at. Tbh, honor killings and FGM aren't the big concerns because the victims of those tend to be migrant women and girls as opposed to the native Europeans. The bigger concern would be crimes committed by migrants which would come to the detriment of the natives.

I might just repeat what the others are saying and recommend that you move out of Russia. I follow infrastructure development and it doesn't look like Russia is really hurting for raw materials, despite waging a full on war. Russia's military budget also constituted 7.1% of its 2024 GDP which might actually be lower than for the USSR. What I'm trying to say is that it will take awhile for Putin to throw in the towel. Add that on top of Russia having quite a bit of stage red, not too similar to your typical Latin American country. Boris Yeltsin tried to catapult the country from blue communism to stage orange. However, the country ended up backsliding into red for a decade before Putin became president.

Outside of Chat GPT, the Democracy Index by The Economist ranks countries by electoral process, government health, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties, scoring countries from 0 to 10. The index dates back to 2006 and goes up to 2024. The US started with a score of 8.22 in 2006 and got a score of 7.85 in 2024. While the US has experienced a decline in democracy, it's not a sharp one.

If you pay close attention to the lyrics, it's clear that this is a song about how much stage red sucks.