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Newsletter Nr. 735
Amsterdam, October 4th, 2018



AFTER TRUMP/KAVANAUGH - My Personal Perspective - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

In a number of my previous Integral World articles I included what I have referred to as an “integrative” perspective, in which I chose to offer a perspective that was free of Wilber's formal “integral” quadrant, levels, lines, types, etc. nomenclature, but focused on the essential meaning of offering a balanced divergence of contrary perspectives. 

However, while I could conceivably do something similar to portray the diversity of perspectives on the respective merits of U.S. President Trump and recently confirmed U.S. Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh, this would be nothing more than a philosophical intellectual exercise for me, and I have no interest in writing this kind of an essay at this point in time. 

For I believe that the current political situation in The United States has reached one of extreme urgency, with the recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. And what particularly concerns me is the adoring crowds of Trump supporters at Trump rallies, licking up all the mockery, derision, scorn, and cruelty that their hero dishes out to them, whether it is of a Kavanaugh accuser, an undocumented immigrant, or a handicapped reporter.

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