This was brilliantly done. Not incidentally, I was thinking about a lot of this kind of stuff in yoga just now, which sort of corroborates my main (only?!) source of functioning optimism: we HAVE to go through this shit in order to get there. The proof is that we WEREN'T GETTING THERE (or even having such discussions, at least not this r…
This was brilliantly done. Not incidentally, I was thinking about a lot of this kind of stuff in yoga just now, which sort of corroborates my main (only?!) source of functioning optimism: we HAVE to go through this shit in order to get there. The proof is that we WEREN'T GETTING THERE (or even having such discussions, at least not this robustly and in so many places) before. So — it does feel like the pressures to evolve are real, and that without those pressures, we wouldn't evolve. I suppose this is just a restating of the Developmental approach, but it does feel true. And having a framework that can contain it all is essential, which you've so powerfully offered here.
My life and work right now has brought me into contact with a lot of new things, which have sort of scrambled but also opened my mind to asking questions that challenge what I thought I knew. This is scary and disorienting, but also essential. Have you seen, by any chance, Century of the Self (documentary by Adam Curtis)? That's not an example of what I'm working on, but it's such a great "lift the hood" exploration of our path to this moment. In general, it's really thorny to be super super committed to the structures of our democracy — in active ways — but also ask such questions.
As I just texted my friend just now: "The political discourse is at a complete stalemate because we do not have a mechanism to ask deeper questions. That's the party I want to found. Every single issue that happens you'll have 50% of the people being for an anti without any nuance. That has to stop. People have to do all of this discussing through the lens of personal interrogation and spiritual inquiry or will get nowhere; it's just volleyball." At this point, I feel like we can plop any "event" into the discourse and we'll pretty much know what everyone is going to say about it. Very few actual, non-rhetorical questions as far as I can tell.
I love where you're going with the development of this framework - we desperately need a container to hold it all. Thank you so much for your important work.
This was brilliantly done. Not incidentally, I was thinking about a lot of this kind of stuff in yoga just now, which sort of corroborates my main (only?!) source of functioning optimism: we HAVE to go through this shit in order to get there. The proof is that we WEREN'T GETTING THERE (or even having such discussions, at least not this robustly and in so many places) before. So — it does feel like the pressures to evolve are real, and that without those pressures, we wouldn't evolve. I suppose this is just a restating of the Developmental approach, but it does feel true. And having a framework that can contain it all is essential, which you've so powerfully offered here.
My life and work right now has brought me into contact with a lot of new things, which have sort of scrambled but also opened my mind to asking questions that challenge what I thought I knew. This is scary and disorienting, but also essential. Have you seen, by any chance, Century of the Self (documentary by Adam Curtis)? That's not an example of what I'm working on, but it's such a great "lift the hood" exploration of our path to this moment. In general, it's really thorny to be super super committed to the structures of our democracy — in active ways — but also ask such questions.
As I just texted my friend just now: "The political discourse is at a complete stalemate because we do not have a mechanism to ask deeper questions. That's the party I want to found. Every single issue that happens you'll have 50% of the people being for an anti without any nuance. That has to stop. People have to do all of this discussing through the lens of personal interrogation and spiritual inquiry or will get nowhere; it's just volleyball." At this point, I feel like we can plop any "event" into the discourse and we'll pretty much know what everyone is going to say about it. Very few actual, non-rhetorical questions as far as I can tell.
I love where you're going with the development of this framework - we desperately need a container to hold it all. Thank you so much for your important work.