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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Community - Up the Spiral

With the current set of political movements and voices, it seems like large, vocal, and visible groups form around simplistic, divisive, religious, selfish, ... models of "reality". These criteria tend to be mostly from the lower levels of the spiral dynamics model. There don't seem to be such groupings arising around criteria from the "higher" levels of development. Criteria from the higher levels would be items like sustainability, fairness, equity, justice, diversity, balance, ...   What is going on?

One aspect of development is an increasing capability to handle and deal with more complexity. As a metaphorical example, more complex life forms are more fragile and fall apart more easily. At the simpler levels of complexity capability, simple criteria are strong attractors ( grouping principle ). At more developed levels, there are more attractors and perspectives about the precedence of those attractors. In addition, the more complex criteria tend to be further away in time. And they tend not to have easily perceivable and tangible correlates. And that makes it difficult to get groups to coalesce around these attractors.

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