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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