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May 2009 
Wilber's Take On Integral "Third-Way" Politics
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)
It's good to see this video freely uploaded on Youtube. Here's Ken Wilber passionately agonizing over how hard Integral "Third-Way" Politics can be.
For more context on the color-coded integralese jargon, see Holons: Integral "Third-Way" Politics.
"While surveying the current American political landscape, it can be easy to feel as though the country is divided into two radically opposing populations: the Left and the Right. When watching the speeches, interviews, and debates on either side of the fence, there is such an incredible difference between the tone, rhetoric, and messages coming from the two major political parties that many pundits have commented that it is as though we live in two utterly different Americas, with very little overlap between the two. But the truth is, we do not live in two Americas, but in a single America composed of at least four or five different sets of values, all crammed together into a two-party political system that is becoming increasingly incapable of representing these wildly different perspectives. Many are beginning to recognize this systemic inadequacy and are searching for a genuinely Integral “Third Way” politics—a new way to break free from the restrictions of such rigidly calcified party lines, transcending both sides of the partisan divide, including the very best of both parties, without resorting to the effete compromise of mere centrism that has been typical of the political “Third Way” to date." [read more]
I know that Obama resonates with a Post-American world view. I wonder if Obama resonates with Integral "Third-Way" Politics as well.
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if only you did have more of a true left, rather than extreme right and slightly left of centre! thanks for the links, i do hope for a different way for the US.
Thanks, C4. The jargonism of Wilber which has reached its peak with the color scheme has always seemed a little over the top to me but it is a very useful model. I think it applies to political thinking here remarkably well. I would definitely be interested in hearing him elaborate on the fundamental conflicts within the Democratic party from the Integral perspective.
One little nit, does anyone actually think that Wilber originated the idea that internal and external locus of control was the fundamental different between Left and Right? His thinking is so valuable, why does he lower himself to such base self-promotion?