INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 635 Amsterdam, January 3rd, 2017 THE FAKE NEWS HEAD FAKE - MARTY KELLER We only need pay attention to find ever-present examples of how a particular narrative about the way things are dominates our culture. One can hope that the latest fad in the Main Stream Media (MSM) clerisy of swooning over the sudden appearance of alleged “fake news” might help us all consider the question of how we help create our culture with our mass delusions and blind spots. Since the development of in the Advanced Sector mass media with the widespread affordability of the radio after World War I, we created the possibility of inculcating specific memes of taste, belief, and prejudice as “mainstream” currents of the culture. This was grafted onto and reflective of the existing methods of mass communication based upon newspapers and pamphleteering, which were by and large generated by very specific political economic interests. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/keller7.html TRANSCEND AND EXCLUDE - The Postmodern U-Turn - MARTY KELLER Ken Wilber has argued, and I completely agree with him, that humanity’s current task is the extension and maturing of the orange, modern, individualistic wave of consciousness. Globally, only around 20% of us have our “center of gravity” in orange, although the contributions of those at orange have radically altered all of us for the better in the past 200 years. And, as I have explored previously, we have yet to fully integrate the earlier waves so that even our current occupation of/by orange has a long way to go to operational maturity among a critical mass of us. This challenge is complicated by the emergence of green in a very immature and reactionary version he calls, appropriately, “Boomeritis.” The mass appearance of green as a wave distinct from orange can be dated to the 1960s, even as we can see expressions of it showing up in the mid-nineteenth century. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/keller8.html