On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:01 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Precisely. When you look at the consciousness of a typical gun nut
This seems completely bogus as a claim on face value. How could
anyone know such a thing about a large diverse group of people?
in > terms of the various scales of development, they score quite
low when > compared to the center of gravity of collective evolution
in the US
(which is moving towards the Green meme, Relativistic-personalistic—
communitarian/egalitarian collective consciousness). Gun hoarding
habits are more Red and Blue meme themes (Egocentric-exploitive
power > gods/dominionist collective consciousness and
Absolutistic-obedience > mythic order—purposeful/authoritarian
collective consciousness).
Spiral Dynamics and other scales of human development that help
people understand other points of view. (Spiral Dynamics is the
system of human development that was used to dismantle Apartheid in
South Africa) It's also popular in some leading edge corporations for
employee orientation. It's a great tool for understanding how various
styles of collective consciousness interact.
A wonderful intro is Ken Wilber's novel Boomeritis: A Novel That Will
Set You Free.
