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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The dignity of differentiation, the disaster of dissociation
Continuing in the IPS anti-capitalism thread, I'm reminded of Wilber's dignity and disaster of modernity,
differentiation and dissociation. The dignity consisted of not only in
differentiating the value spheres but in differentiating the individual
from his social milieu. A person could be individually rewarded for
their meritorious efforts and buy their own property, from a house to a
tv to whatever. There is a healthy side to this sort of individual
effort/reward if kept within a social context, where such agency is
tempered by communion. But it seems this went over into the disaster of
not only differentiating the individual but dissociating from the social
structure, where personal greed and overconsumption took over. It seems
per Wilber the next healthy phase is integration instead of
dissociation, integrating agency and communion, individual and social
property, finding that balance in distributed capitalism that still
rewards one for individual effort but not to the point of ego inflation,
while also creating true equal opportunity (not equal results) for all.
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