Here lie the start of a much anticipated thread on spiral dynamics. Note that this is not a thread for moralizing or politics. This thread is meant to introduce the concepts and framework generated from the model as well as offer a space for speculation in how such a framework can be extended or modulated within the emergent renaissance ecology. That is, at the end of the day, no stage or color is bad and every individual has the right to identify or organize their thoughts/feelings however they desire. The map is most definitely not the territory, and humans are much too complex to be grasped in their entirety. On the other hand, the asymmetry of power between individuals and corporations leads to what Jordan Hall calls a "strip mining of the soul", whereby ML algorithms and specialized teams are reducing the human mind to manageable/predictable components which are sold to the highest bidder. With powerful tech comes great opportunity and risk.I reached to grasp a beige rock while gasping for air.
The frenzy turned to dance caught by the purple moon glare.
I reached for a red blade and banner to lead through to the sun.
The heat melted blades and erected barriers to the blue wave fun.
I reached across to shovel and sift the soil orange with hidden ore caches.
The search for the hidden blinded to how the green foliage patched us.
I reached but could not quite touch the yellow stars that shined before.
The refraction of the sun penetrated a turquoise sky and now we are touched for after.
Our interiors have been lagging behind our exteriors. Fueling a trend towards the reduction of human culture for computer understanding, though humans are not so easily seduced. The niche of homo sapiens sapiens is niche creation and although we have spread our range globally and beyond, there is still much that could be opened up within us that dwarfs the surfaces we project. In an adaptive landscape, there can be any number of nearby peaks to be punctuated/reached. Valley crossing symbolized by something like the Theory U model below.
Below is an AQAL chart that maps other systems onto SD. One being the Kegan model discussed on the forum prior(*): viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9972
(*) The recurring pattern being that we are currently "In Over Our Heads", hence the title of this thread.
Generally speaking, a stage model can be constructed through use of the pre/trans fallacy. Pick a signifier of development (i.e. rationality), then a stage model fits onto pre-rational, rational, trans-rational whereby an agent at the rationality stage will conflate pre-rational and trans-rational. With this rule of thumb, you may start to experiment with the space of stage-theories, inducing a plurality that helps to ward off overconfidence and bias in self and other assessment. Such assessment probably shouldn't be the primary use of such tools. More than anything, I have found such tools to give pointers towards my own shadow material. Another use being to catch culture at large up with our algorithms. The interpretation crisis perhaps aided by a depth and breath of interior complexity. Though, one thought I cannot quite shake is how these models could potentially be used by the algorithms. The redeeming hope perhaps being their innately human design in dealing with color and shape rather than domino towers made of micro-polarizations.