Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The problem of too complex social structures
The “integral” approach of Ken Wilber, like traditional religion before him, overestimates and
outruns real human nature in affirming social structures too complex
to work well over time, which is mainly why we don't have the world
they envision after thousands of years of trying.
Valuing “worldcentric” and
universal programs as the most desired human structures, when they
exists at the weakest reaches of real human nature, and the most
difficult extensions for bonding humans together peacefully, leads to
various failures. This kind of “world philosophy” wrongly defines the world
as more important than small states, creating an unreal or false
holism of values.
Better to admit the hard reality of the
basic kin-centerdness and ethnocentrism of real human nature, and
learn to work with and harmonize this into the world, which suggest a
less complex view, of small independent states
within a very light protecting federalism.
Real workable social structures require
working hard on understanding cooperative competition rather than
hedonistic compacts of unreal harmony, which have their origin in the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul of traditional religion. This is only half the religious worldview of the Twofold Path required to reach Godhood.
The religious base of working with real human nature, and the social programs that work best with real human
beings, is grounded in the sacred evolution of humanity over great time to
Godhood. This sacred evolution works best with variety, localism,
and competition, but a competition monitored by science and the religious values of Ordered Evolution.
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