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Dystopias and Utopias looked at with Spiral Dynamics

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Is it the case that the various dystopias people came up with throughout history were basically predictions of the unhealthy versions of each of the spiral stages taken to the extreme? Was it a result of an intuitive realization of the changes that were happening at that time, by the authors whose passion it was to reflect upon the motion of the zeitgeist? It seems like the dystopias were written in times when the changes were most radical, and thus most obvious to the people effected by it.

Though it seems like there was always a lack of realization that there is a next step to the evolution, another stage past the stage they were currently going into, which by the model of spiral dynamics will not happen as a realization until stage yellow is reached, correct? 

 

If this is the case and dystopias are a reaction to the transitioning into new stages, then are utopias an extreme version of each stage if it was ultimately healthy and not restricted by the evolutionary force of nature? It seems like the current dystopia as a reaction to stage green is some sort of tyranny that will control language and behavior to mold society into compassion-robots who need to be careful about everything they say and do. 

 

Now my question is whether this process is useful for the stabilization of the given civilization? If there was no fear of the dystopia, would it be more likely that the dystopia would actually take place due to no resistance? It seems like any new stage is the reaction to an older stage and will naturally want to go as far away from the previous stage as it can so that it can fully propel itself into the new stage. Though the force that requires that transitions is so great that once the stage is reached it will simply continue to transition into an even more extreme version of itself, as there is nothing that stops the force. On the other hand, if there is resistance, it will take longer for the new stage to be reached, but it will not as easily spill over into the extreme. It's as if there was a pendulum and we wanted to get it from one side to the other, and the quicker we want it to get to the other side the more it will actually swing past target, and the greater will be the the fall back to the other side again. If we attached some sort of rubber mechanism that would keep it from swinging quickly, it would not overshoot but it will take longer for it to reach the other side.

Is the fear and the inability to change basically like that kind of rubber mechanism just on a societal scale? And is it something that evolved and is important for survival of the civilization? Is it the civilization trying to remain in homeostasis so that it doesn't fall apart when changes are taking place?

 

I see Leo criticizing negative reactions to individual stages, and I recognize that it is useful from an individualistic perspective, but might these reaction be something important from the perspective of the collective? Let's say there was no one resisting to stage green and a revolution would take place within a few years, would that actually be desirable? It seems to me like there needs to be a balance, so that change can take place but so that it meets just the right amount of resistance so that it doesn't go into extremes. And it seems like this mechanism is also true for the individual ego.


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