Monday, July 11, 2016

What helps most of us the most?

This is the question posed by Zach in this FB IPS thread. He argues its the techno-economic base and I agree. My responses to that thread follow:

Wilber, Excerpt A:

"Marx was right in that, for most people, the techno-economic base is a major determinant of their consciousness."


I'm with you on this one Zach, and why I'm much more politically active and pretty much now philosophically inactive. Without a techno-economic base founded in the collaborative commons, instead stuck in corporate capitalism, most of us have little chance to 'evolve' psychologically. Hence why the Sanders movement is critical at this juncture in US history.
Just selling capitalists AQAL models only gives them better manipulation tools, while also influencing the AQALites to the point of accepting the current economic base (in the guise of 'conscious' capitalism) instead of trying to move it to is next evolutionary phase. ITC 2015 had a lively debate about this very thing, with Zach Stein defending the anti- and post-capitalism position. We documented some of that, and much more, in this FB thread, as well as this Ning thread. 

And since we're talking AQAL, I'd suggest Mark Edwards' work as an alternative, since even the so-called LR has its own 4 quadrants and 8 zones. It doesn't, like kennilingus, presuppose an assholon of everything so that we can tidily limit the techno-economic base to A LR quadrant in the ultimate scheme of things. Moving from a theory of everything to a theory for anything is in itself a much more postmetaphysical move, given postmetaphysicality is a key ingredient in this movement. 

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