ADENDUM TO QUESTION NR. 4
Organized, transcribe & translated to Spanish
by RAQUEL TORRENT
As I wanted to share rapidly Ken's opinion about Trump & Clinton's political candidacy, on the day of the Elections, I posted the first part of question nr. 4 of the Interview so that you would have an advancement of his ideas. Here you have the rest of the question.
As I wanted to share rapidly Ken's opinion about Trump & Clinton's political candidacy, on the day of the Elections, I posted the first part of question nr. 4 of the Interview so that you would have an advancement of his ideas. Here you have the rest of the question.
Ken Wilber - Denver |
Right now we have this
fundamentally fragmented viewpoints under this dominant cultural sense or
relativity, where nothing is better than
anything else. Everything is equally special, equally important and where you cannot say
this is good and that's bad as all that is Taboo.
That just paralyzes action. I call it
"Aperspectival Madness",
which it means no perspective is better than another, no perspective has any
more value than another. And yet that view itself is the product of six stages
of hierarchical growth¡ If you actually
go their way, you could see they destroy their stands. They will never get up
to their stands. So it's a mess¡ And again is part of what I see unfortunately
as a couple of decades of fairly unpleasant world situation.
Now, I know a fair number of
people that are looking at the leading edge, seeing a slow but
distinctively visible growth. They have
Integral, Holistic worldviews. Even if
they don't understand all of the stages of development and realize that those
integral worldviews are coming from one of the very high stages of development
(and only about 5% of the world's population is at that stage), these stages
are there and this 5% of people who have those kinds of views too. Part of the problem is that they do not have
the authority to change anything yet. But the important thing is that they may
realize that the viewpoint that they're talking about is real and there are
people that increasingly have that same viewpoint. And it's not that we're
making it if you think about it.
Some people think that we have
the old and the new paradigms. The old
paradigm is all of that other stuff combined like if half of the world is at
the new paradigm and the other half is at the old and then we slip over to the
new paradigm and that will save everything. It would be very nice that 50% of
the world would be there, but it's not ¡
So it's true they're not in decisions of power. What happens is that in some cases people at
higher levels of development tend to do better in most disciplines, in most professions than other stages.
Because of that, some high percentage of
high accomplishment individuals are at that 5%.
If you take really influential forces in any discipline, more likely
like a 20% of them are at Integral stages because they're concentrated in those
upper accomplishment levels. They don't
see how they got there, they don't see that it's just part of an overall
spectrum of many different stages of growth and development. And that's part of
the problem¡ It also gives them a hard
time understanding why the world is in such a mess when they have this
wonderfully developed high world view.