Over at IPS forum we've been discussing Evolving Dharma by Jay Michaelson. e chimed in with his usual kennilingus dogma on how Michaelson is 'green' because "he criticized Asian dharmic culture as being too stratified. He criticized capitalism and folks who marginalized minorities." Hologram holomovement replied:
"I certainly have my limits with overly politically correct greens, but
their ability to be critical of capitalism for destroying human
communities and the environment and being more tolerant of alternatives
that are more egalitarian and non-judgemental is something that is
desperately needed at this point in history. so instead of labeling
greens as mean-green nihilists as wilber and the integral orthodoxy do,
we should encourage and promote the best of each level while maintaining
a critical eye toward the pathological at each level. wilber is
clearly in a performative contradiction when he proclaims the transcend
and include imperative on the one hand and then dismisses the greens by
excluding the entire archetypal lexicon of social justice from his
system in favor of entrepreneurial commercialized spirituality, the
postmodern form of religion in late capitalism."
To which I replied:
Also see this post
and several following, which call into question the kennilingus green
meme formula while offering a different take on what constitutes
postformality. I and many other alternative integralists have argued
that in many ways kennilingus is itself formal and not post, one being
"entrepreneurial commercialized spirituality" as you so eloquently put
it. And another of your good points is that just because someone might
care about more egalitarian communities, environmental stewardship and
social activism doesn't in itself make them relativists where anything
goes. Such reductionism is again indicative of formal operations, and
skewed ones at that.
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