Subject: The vMemes at War Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:29:54 +0200 From: Frank Visser To: f.visser3@chello.nl WILBER FRIENDS MAILING LIST ========================== http://www.worldofkenwilber.com Amsterdam, September 23, 2001 Hi Wilber Friend, Ray Harris has done a memetic analysis of the current world crisis (Don Beck: "A brilliant analysis"). THE V-MEMES AT WAR: WHAT IS THE INTEGRAL REPSONSE? "The lines are being drawn in the sand. The vMemes are at war. What are we to make of this? How have we arrived at this point? This paper is a tentative and preliminary examination of the issues. It does not pretend to be conclusive. It will use the language of Ken Wilber's spectrum model freely mixed with the concepts of Spiral Dynamics. It will also include my own interpretation of the stages of development, interpretations that do not necessarily belong to Wilber or to SD, but which should be relatively easy to distinguish. I intend to be blunt in my assessment of the various trends. I am not interested in holding back out of some misplaced Green sensitivity, in fact such sensitivity, as I will argue, has been part of the problem." Topics covered: - ISLAM - SUFISM - JIHAD AND ISLAMIC APOLOGETICS - THE CORE NEEDS - THE ORANGE WORLDVIEW - GLOBALIZATION - OIL - A RED/ORANGE WAR - THE BLUE/GREEN RESPONSE - THE FUTURE - BROADER SOLUTIONS Read on at: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com (Reading Room or top links at homepage). Frank -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 PV A'dam, Netherlands Pay a visit to my homepage: http://members.ams.chello.nl/f.visser3 Read all about Ken Wilber: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx