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Newsletter Nr. 802
Amsterdam, October 30th, 2019


EXCEPTIONALISM: INTEGRAL'S BLUE PILL - JOSEPH DILLARD

In The Matrix, the film from which the above reference is derived, Morpheus, the leader of the rebellion against the machines enslaving humanity in a dream-like delusional state, says the following to Neo:

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

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INTEGRAL'S OVERTON WINDOW - Opening or Closing? - JOSEPH DILLARD

Charles Hugh Smith, in his essay, “Prying Open the Overton Window,"[1] describes the Overton Window as “the spectrum of concepts, policies and approaches that can be publicly discussed without being ridiculed or marginalized as 'too radical,' 'unworkable,' 'crazy…'” (All quotes below are from Smith's article, unless otherwise noted.)

The above is a picture of the media's Overton Window, but it can easily be adapted to Integral. In the center would be “Mainstream Integral Thought,” as represented by Wilber, Corey DeVos, and those individuals closely identified with Wilber's understanding of what Integral AQAL is. This depiction implies that mainstream media is a relatively open Overton Window. Many would disagree with that, drawing a much tighter circle. “The narrower the Overton Window, the greater the impoverishment of public dialog and the fewer the solutions available.”

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