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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