Bohemia on Nostr: Pre coffee EU morning thoughts 🤫 (this was formulated before I saw your reply ...

Pre coffee EU morning thoughts 🤫 (this was formulated before I saw your reply which I'll have to think on more too now lol)
I pull much of my thinking on this from Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. In the green stage of development, egalitarianism, equality, sensitivity, and consensus are valued above all else. But the ironic part is, if the lower stages aren't integrated, then those with green as their stage will still carry red inside and their red urges will usurp their efforts. Red meaning power hungry and egocentric which becomes shadow material if not appropriately integrated. We see this in leftists who believe in equality so much that they will burn down an entire town to get it, for instance. Equality as the value, destruction as the method. I've also seen this thinking first hand in the spiritual community, and they get railroaded when they deny that there is value in "lower" stages of development. There is no reason good enough to go to war, because war is bad. But really, there isn't? Defending what you love is healthy red, and denying it doesn't make it go away.

I'd even use OpenSats as a green example. A non profit that values openness and stewardship has had its integrity called into question after a red way of thinking, egoism, power, dominance, territory sat on the board and had publically attacked a competing project. And green believes in trust over verification and is reluctant to confront, allowing the organization to be influenced by a very red way of thinking and not addressing the conflict of interest until a catastrophe forced their hand. Don't trust, verify requires making judgment acceptable in order to discern and protect what green values most.