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Conscious Evolution?
Posted March 11th, 2010 by stefano
In the news,
Some excerpts (with emphasis mine):
begin by identifying the trajectory of evolution and showing that its directionality is produced by processes that are fully understandable within mainstream science, without resort to teleology or mysticism. They go on to use the trajectory of evolution to identify the agendas that guide evolutionary activists in their attempts to advance the evolutionary process
Evolutionary activists use the trajectory of evolution to identify what they need to do to advance evolution. Socially, the next great step in human evolution is the emergence of a unified and sustainable global society. Psychologically, the next step is to free our behavior from the dictates of our biological and cultural past, so that we can do that which is necessary for future evolutionary success.
I think the Evolutionary Manifesto is funny. It is as if the green vmeme, having deconstructed all grand narratives, found itself with nothing left to do. So it did what it knows best about -- grand narratives! and proceeded to construct one of its own. That is, after all, how power is imposed -- the great myth of order which its adherents accept with absolute conviction.
Now let's see, we can't appeal to God for our absolute, but hey a lot of people believe in science, let's use that! Plus as an added bonus, the biological view of humans as "just another species", avoids all that capitalist imperialist speceisist crap.
The Grand Narrative is dead! Long live the Grand Narrative!
PS:
I don't mean to troll on green just to annoy green. I think the aim is partially correct: there are "next steps" available, and evolution is partially seen in 3rd person Nature, but it is also seen in 1st and 2nd person religion.
A green-bonded world would be nice, if everyone was already green. But envisioning everyone becoming green, "evolving" to green, is just another 1st tier fight.
Maybe it was written by someone entering green, drawing on science's objectivity and reinterpreting it from a green value, filling the void created by the rejection of amber, with an embracement of green. A next step, for some.
What is truly an appropriate "next step", for the world as a whole, is to go back and pick up the existing pieces and adjust them, like a weak spine that needs its disks realigning. As KW has said, we've spent our dollars on the way up, and now we've got little left to go any further. The foundations are too weak. I don't know how many analogies I gotta make here. We will crumble from below, not because we didn't reach far enough above.
PPS:
I add a caveat that I might be misinterpeting turquoise as green. But if anyone would like to press me on this point, I'd kindly ask they show me how they're not misinterpreting green as turquoise.
PPPS:
If anyone is in doubt that activist manifestos can be funny, try reading this:
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I GUESS I WON'T TRY TO WRITE ANY MANIFESTOS
Posted March 12th, 2010 by Pam MaccabeeVery interesting post, Stefano. Wish I had time to read the manifesto, but whatyou write makes good sense to me despite the fact that I'm pretty new to integral theory. Am a neophyte (without the "fight" since it is love, not hatred, that will save humanity).
Warmly,
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Manifesto Fun
Posted March 12th, 2010 by ZARDOZ SPEAKSAHAHA!
Today ZARDOZ learned a new word.
VROOM VROOM! FUTURIST AVANGARD MANIFESTO FUN!
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hi stefano - not sure i hit on what u were asking but....
Posted March 11th, 2010 by AnnieMy first question is how the green vmeme determines the trajectory of evolution, if it sees it as merely a inclusion of all levels of consciousness I think it has missed the thrust of where we are going. Evolution does not deconstruct merely to reconstruct, but the focus is on necessity that does not see things in the way of solutions. Rather the sight is more like a snowball that continually picks up new, changing shape as it climbs to even higher altitudes. It does not see in a box that can have an inside and outside rather it intuitively recognizes satisfactions with a communal nature.
We must also be willing to recognize what is discarded, but these things are not regarded as evil or undeserving instead they continue to exist within our framework only we now see what they become - as long as we continue to relate on all levels - all levels are embraced. So yesterday, today and tomorrow in a sense becomes one.
I don’t believe for a minute that we could possibly eliminate the dictates of our biological and cultural past, this is precisely the foundation on which we build our future. Knowing where we come from gives us key information on how we proceed, it is precisely these voices that we hear that can be interpreted through our current understanding - as if today we realize what it really meant. Tomorrow we will realize anew - and this too will get passed on.
If one were to use the Green vmeme value structure to determine where we are heading it would have failed to follow the currents, the organization does not work the same way - we do not build bigger boxes we re-frame our way of constructing.
I am asking myself now how the details could possibly be worked out when we attempt to view from such a impersonal level - and what comes to mind for me is that we continue to be a unique and personal being in the world we cannot help but seek out and find solutions that solve real problems…except now our resources are much greater and more of us “try it on” to see what fits.