Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Radical activism as spiritual
Article by Terry Patten. While I am in full agreement that political activism is a spiritual activity, I have one caveat. The
framing of spiritual social activism as 'integral evolutionary' to me
turns off a lot of so-called common folk who otherwise would get on
board. It's part of the larger reason Dump won the election: The
revulsion of the elite by the majority. And to me it seems that
'integral evolutionary,' while perhaps a valid description, might be
defeating its own purpose given its perception as part of that elite.
Such ideas can be framed more effectively like Sanders and Warren do,
and thus influence many more people to the cause. Part of that
effectiveness is also giving up our attachment to being 'more evolved'
and framing it that way. Perhaps it is the last vestige of narcissism from which we must awaken?
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