The STAGE IS SET!
We have the appropriate ValuDYNAMICS @F-L-O-W occurring…
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"Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe the country is
greatly divided when it comes to important values — on the
high end of what polls since 1993 have found. Republicans and
conservatives are most likely to perceive divisiveness."
Read
more at GALLUP.com.
Over the past decade, I’ve been thinking of more
ways to get people to resist vertical
approaches which leave inborn values behind as they face
accelerating complexity. I’m trying to get them to understand they
will be a LOT happier if they begin to limit complexity AND noise
by deepening their own valuing…
A sort of coming home, so
to speak.
This can easily be piggy-backed on the shoulders of Dr. Don Beck
and Spiral Dynamics® as ValuDYNAMICS™ @F-L-O-W.
That’s what I’m calling it, because the meta
model at yellow/contribution, is NOT
integral, is NOT an integration.
It is a differentiation, a
dis-integration, which allows the whole to become
much more robust, resilient, and
anti-fragile in the face of accelerating vertical
complexity.
Solutions are too tall these days
and solutions are being created too far from where people are…
We are actually creating solutions which
not only don’t work, but make things worse because of the
weight of our genetics as a ball and chain on the leg of
memetics.
The gene-meme gap is growing exponentially too wide for
most; and while it is creating innovation for those who can, the
1-5%, even that innovation is sending more and more money into the
pockets of that 1% and those who fund it, the other 15%.
DO YOU REALIZE 20% of the
people on the planet control almost 90% of the planet’s wealth?
This means as this gap increases, fewer and
fewer can go higher — keeping pace
with complexity — and the string of literal and figurative dead
"bodies" we are going to leave behind is going to topple the
system because the scaffold can’t support the weight of change.
[Largely because the top 20% don’t get it, while
they are getting it — they will GET IT THOUGH, if you catch my
occluded metaphors!]
I see this in all cultures where there is not sufficient enough of
a "Spiral Dynamics® Blue" base… in some cases, a purple base,
although technology is wreaking havoc with these systems because
it’s giving them tools their morality can’t control.
"A" solution is to back away from
complexity in most parts, and to see problems not as some
giant international global government or force to be managed
by an elite few, but rather a large number of "dumber"
actors…collaborating together as a contribution, a dis-integrated,
collaboration, facilitated by
Scaffolding @F-L-O-W –> substituting increasing happiness for
consumption.
If you study ants, they have only about 10 things they are capable
of being, doing, having, becoming, and
contributing. They are
controlled by conditions and communications…
pheromones. Normally ants do their OWN things — a purpose
which they were naturally designed to fulfill — and when a
heightened state of conditions arise, the shopkeepers, janitors,
and food purveyors, all stop what they are doing — they do NOT
become smarter, more vertically equipped, but utilizing their
capability and the smart mob, confront the situation as needed for
the colony to survive.
What emerges is a combinatorial system which deploys resources to
the problem.
This is NOT a direct vertical response where the
ants are trained and changed to become more capable. This is the
use of natural design and scaffolding, as well as contribution and
communication to resolve the tensions.
Ants are NOT disappearing… there must be some
efficacy in the approach?
Now, while this might sound simple, it’s actually a way to use
dumb actors to produce extremely complex emergence, and none of
them are changed. As soon as the "condition" returns back to
normal, ants go back to doing what they were doing.
They are not engaged in creating
more problems by doing stuff they shouldn’t be doing.
THERE IS A LESSON here, that I was unable to get across in my
confab presentation in 2003…*
*[Pickup the confab ppt and review as our
gift when you register!]
…and in reviewing the slides again this week
and using them to do a little lecture on the eve of the 10th
anniversary without modifying them, I realized that it is
progressivity [and a group of people who are more entrained to
progress] who then have been "allowed" to set a societal set of
composite standards through their verbal capability (relationship
dynamics) that others then attempt to mimic, and follow, that is
the problem.
This is a cul de sac and this
faux-green system of integral has misled us into believing
"their" direction is "our" direction through their adept
verbal reasoning.
In the makeup of aliveness and its consequence — open-ended problem
solving — what has clearly become important is to resist the
"sirens" of progressivity in total… Tie yourself to the mast of
your ship (your own values) and listen to their beautiful song,
but pass on by, like Ulysses to fight "his" battles, not
everyone’s!
People are being taught that they should pursue progression in a
vertical sense because it’s there.
It’s a mistake…IMHO.
It is man extending his genes to chase his memes and the memes can
run circles around our genes… and as societal composites, this
direction, this siren call to progress and complexity is slowly
pushing us to the cliff.
We can NOT continue this…
Even though, in the process, I can show you how this will
naturally continue, that we will have a roaring teens starting
next year… we only delay the inevitable meet-up with conventional
resources in "Limits to Growth."
So our post conventional system and those who
can manage it, will reach the end of the line conventionally.
Yet, our genes will not change much with this process, limiting us
by the mirror of reality.
Our genes are plastic — but NOT that plastic that we will be able
to live too far away from our inbornness. We may be able to
soften the edges, but we can’t change, or transform ourselves…
unless we change our genes, which, by the way, is coming in two
decades. But for the present and the lead up to our hitting
of the wall… which is why a momentous leap is required… we will
have to deal with what we have, in the way we can.
In the past decade I saw that the ignorant, and those who will
remain so, through no fault of their own, need help. We need to
stop driving them all to the ladders on the wall, or into choosing
the right walls. It is not necessary. It is not
producing greater levels of well-being, only greater quantity and
quality of "wants" globally — that is at question here.
In order to begin to decelerate this entire system, we have to
help people through what I’m proposing as ValuDYNAMICS™ @F-L-O-W,
where people come home to live… and are proud of their
BEing,
DOing, HAVEing,
BECOMEing, and
CONTRIBUTEing in their red, blue,
orange and green houses. Let those who can occupy yellow
build scaffolding for the rest. We can’t continue to TAKE from
those less capable. That money needs to be used to provide
significant benefits including a lot of money to decelerate this
system and keep the conventional folks happy through Design
@F-L-O-W.
This turn-around from the momentous leap — people going off a
cultural cliff — must be a part of any solution, as people have a
right to be who they are, so why do we place in front of them
vertical models…?
We need to teach blue to be the safest and securest blue, informing
their limits with all the wonderful developments that come from
iteration and complexity; but teach them also, that there is a
reason to live out of purpose and there is a reason for them to go
home with the "gurl who brung ’em". Dance with everyone, but
remember where your bread is buttered, and that is in being happy,
and in many cases –LESS successful — to contribute more, rather
than less, if you understand my attribution!
As a result?
Happiness increases, and resource consumption decelerates, giving
us time to evolve consciousness and morality over time.
This is a place where a recursion is likely to produce great
benefits, once we find a way to deal with ego loss. This
will probably take at least two generations, one to teach, another
behind them to learn, and the third should be able to express the
morality we need to be able to deal with the complex moral shifts
that options will make available; because people will start to
have a choice about who they want to be, literally and
figuratively. However, those moral opportunities and
dilemmas will require a different moral
base… and there is your second
tier, not all this goofy stuff the faux-green have extended
about integration.
I’m here to say that integration is based on
what you can dis-integrate and a chicken and egg incapable of
solution because of reality being an open system! You NEVER reach
the point of integration, because at every point of integration,
there are additional emergence which are not integrated, the very
essence of life itself evolving and co-creating us in the process!
You can’t go farther than you can go, until we produce systems
that change how far you can go (and we will, it’s part of a new
freedom, which is constrained now because you can’t go far from
the genes you were given).
UNTIL then, within three generations, maybe (Philippine
generations) of 15-18 years!, or western generations which are
trending much longer, we might be little longer, still within 50
years, we’ll be able to do whatever we want, in those respects…
including determining within a large degree of freedom, how long
we program ourselves to live, which means we need a momentous leap
in understanding about what it will be like to live beyond what we
imagined, and what happiness means to each individual.
From anti-aging to life extension, to life design… those will
require 2nd tier people… and not just 1% but in the process of
getting there, we’ll design those people for second tier as well,
with ValuDYNAMICS™ @F-L-O-W. Join me, won’t you?
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