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Quick Test: Are You Post-Progressive?

Are You A Developmentalist?
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Take a 2-minute test of your political developmentalism, and see your “transcendence and inclusion score.”

This simple test asks you to select your level of agreement or disagreement with twelve political statements. The test results will indicate your inclusivity score, your transcendence score, and the overall extent of your developmental perspective.

Worldview Questionnaire

Worldview Questionnaire

What is your worldview? Take this 7-minute test and find out which “values frame” describes you best.

By answering these 17 questions you may learn more about your own worldview, as well as about the worldviews of others.

Character Development Exercise

Character Development Exercise

Become a better person through this brief exercise in character development—create your personal portrait of the good.

Answer 10 questions to create a personalized chart of what matters most to you. This chart—your Portrait of the Good—will be sent to your email address as a pdf file.

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“I am grateful for the post-progressive way of thinking. It was totally new to me, and now that I have been exposed to it, I think it is the way forward. It is the future. If there is a way out of this terrible culture war, I think it will be something along these lines. I love the idea of taking the best of the different worldviews and bringing them together into a more inclusive post-progressive worldview. This is a brilliant approach, and I am going to try to share it with as many people who are willing to listen to me as possible.”

– Lucas Chasin

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“Progressivism doesn’t work without a foundation of modernism and traditionalism. Post-Progressivism allows modernists and traditionalists to feel significant, to feel needed, and to have a foundational seat at the table. The reason I don’t identify as a progressive, even though I am a vegan, spiritual, conscious, burning man guy, is because I feel its rejection of these previous worldviews …”

– Thomas Waterman

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6 days ago

# New Presentation by Steve McIntosh

Hey, Developmentalists! Let's continue the conversation from Steve's talk that he gave to our group this month.

He discusses his paper titled: “Cultivating Noosphere Evolution in the Spirit of Teilhard and Whitehead," which he presented to the Whitehead and Teilhard conference at Villanova University last week.

Steve's paper will be published with the other conference papers in an academic book next year.
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Isn’t Intuition the noosphere?

I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing it.

Thank you for posting this presentation. I always appreciate the depth Steve brings to any conversation/presentation. I especially liked Steve's explication of world view - how it is more than a cognitive point of view. I look forward to the release of Steve's paper when the conference presentations are published. Congrats Steve! I hope you were well received.

4 days ago

There aren’t many giants like Sy Hersh (or Greg Palast) who expose the nightmares we continue to conjure up…Can we turn the comment section here into a Sy Hersh think tank?
suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/its-worse-than-you-think?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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There aren’t many giants like Sy Hersh (or Greg Palast) who expose the nightmares we continue to conjure up…Can we turn the comment section here into a Sy Hersh think tank?
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/its-worse-than-you-think?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
6 days ago

Are there any brighter minds that can comment on Musk's assertions, and perhaps my misunderstandings. I often intuit that remarks like this are an integral unfolding or enactment. He has said he's a classic Democrat but the party left him. He was invited into Trumps circle and quickly distanced himself from him. If society and civilization is evolving can he be the wizardly messenger and a change agent? What if the Western Liberal Order is in it's final stage, and we are to rethink and realign?Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, compared modern civilization to the Roman Empire on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, early Monday. trib.al/VODILSs ... See MoreSee Less

Are there any brighter minds that can comment on Musks assertions, and perhaps my misunderstandings. I often intuit that remarks like this are an integral unfolding or enactment. He has said hes a classic Democrat but the party left him. He was invited into Trumps circle and quickly distanced himself from him. If society and civilization is evolving can he be the wizardly messenger and a change agent? What if the Western Liberal Order is in its final stage, and we are to rethink and realign?

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Musk is certainly far from alone for saying as much. But I get the idea Musk is motivated to say it out of frustration rather than from historical analysis. Empires fall apart but the time table by which it happens is probably impossible to predict. Usually the end comes unexpectedly. They lean precariously until some random event not expected to amount to much suddenly achieves a critical point and then inertia pulls it all down.

Musk hasn t enough geopoltical intelligence and imagination. He is fishing for public attention more and more. His fake announcement of a MMA fight with ZUckerberg and some rdiculous posing in the Russian invasion of Ukraine have shrinked him for me rapidly.

It depends on how you define empire or civilisation. The Roman Empire did not collapse as much as it evolved. If there is any lesson for the US it is the decline of the British empire. Although it has lost wealth and power, British culture is still very influential. As for Musk - to use the Roman analogy - he is a wealthy patrician who, through their decadence and neglect, allowed Rome to decline. What is his solution other than to profit from new tech?

People can say the right things from a variety of worldviews, it does not make them integral nor does it imply he knows what he is talking about. He is just a rich entrepreneur with a huge ego and who uses the power his money gives him to act out more and more radical and in support of autocracy and right wing extremism.

I’d also add that this is a popular meme among the technorati—that civilization is collapsing—and that it performs an ideological function—only the John Galts of the world can save us with their technology. It centers the entrepreneur as a mythic hero saving the world.

Successful businesspeople are often extremely smart and good at what they do, but they generally lack a deep understanding of history and politics (and, I would add, economics, in a more integral sense of the term). And the converse is true, too—historians and political scientists generally don’t understand how business really works. The difference is that historians and company generally don’t have a public platform and influence.

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5 days ago

Let's welcome our new members!
Melina Curi,
SUE Speaks
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Welcome!!!

Welcome, Melina and Sue!

6 days ago

Let's welcome our new members!
Sheharyar Jillani,
Linda Ho-oh
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Welcome, Sheharyar and Linda!

2 weeks ago

This meme that Steve McIntoshSteve and I created this meme and is getting a little attention over on X (formerly Twitter). If you want to be part of the sharp end of the spear, follow us @PoliticsDevelop: twitter.com/PoliticsDevelop ... See MoreSee Less

This meme that Steve McIntoshSteve and I created this meme and is getting a little attention over on X (formerly Twitter). If you want to be part of the sharp end of the spear, follow us @PoliticsDevelop: https://twitter.com/PoliticsDevelop

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Sooo good!! Thanks!

Great meme! And… depending on how we define “vilify”, there are times and places when villains have to be called out.

Love it!!!! Yes!

Hmm, it says left exit ... 😆

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Community Comment

“I really appreciated the use of gay marriage as an example of win-win-win policy solutions because it shows how people with different approaches to political issues can still align on values. In speaking to my friends about using this value integration technique I realized that it can be helpful to use value as a verb, rather than a noun. When you look at value as a verb, as in ‘what do we all value?’, it really does become possible for traditionalists, modernists, and progressives to value a lot of the same things.”

– Scott Kirby

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