Friday, February 22, 2008
The History Hour
Stages of Consciousness and the world political order
Feb 22
Jeanes ends his sketches of pre-modern, medieval mind and mentality (consciousness of the Middle Ages) with references from Johan Huizinga and Jacques Barzun.
Current event Editorials: Canada's Afghan Mission; Australia's apology to its Aborigines.
A review of the thoughts of Steve McIntosh, a political theorist of Spiral Dynamics. McIntosh offers his analysis of the politics of modern, post-modern and integral consciousness.
He theorizes about the backward state of Third World nations and the need to protect First World prosperity from regression in a hypothetical future united world. If the poor nations were allowed a one-person, one-vote power in a global democratic government, they would regress the advanced nations.
McIntosh makes a controversial, strongly-worded critique of the primitivism of Islam and why it is not a modern civilization.
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