Leo Gura

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Yellow Values: Nuance & complexity Openmindedness Perspective Novel concepts & POVs Generating fresh insights Understanding Systems thinking Nonlinear dynamics Sustainability, long time frames Going meta Big picture vs technical analysis Holistic analysis Synthesis Connecting the dots Penetrating to the core of an issue Identifying & solving root problems A multi-disciplinary approach Mixing hard & soft sciences Creativity, outside-the-box solutions Ecology Responsible ways of being Studying models Spiral Dynamics Natural hierarchies Education, knowledge, research, reading Reading lots of diverse books Clean content, concentrated information Life-long learning Expertise, competence, experience Context, learning from history Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole Independent thinking Neutrality: Being objective/impartial Designing solutions for the entire Spiral Meeting people where they are at Building bridges Social engineering Ecological designs Reducing the suffering of living systems Pulling ideas from many sources Combining different ideas, models, theories Left-brained Vision & purpose, being a visionary Requisite variety, mental flexibility Self-actualization Paradox Uncertainty Responsibility, independence, autonomy Being a lone-wolf Stage Yellow Examples: Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller

What do you mean by insanity? You can always lower your dose.

You can push it, but you should understand why those ideas will not get adopted any time soon. Many of those leftist ideas are highly impractical and ungrounded. The problem with leftists is that they love to moralize without understand the realities of survival. You love to say stop the genocide, but you have no actual solution to the situation. This is like a child screaming: "Ice cream now!" How do you stop terrorists from attacking Israel?

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When we talk about dating advice, we are generalizing.

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Emptiness = Infinity

@Carl-Richard I'm glad you understand the concept of hyperbole. Now apply it to what OP was saying.

Not at all. There are many functional drug addicts. You can do heroin and still keep a job. If most drug addicts were homeless, the homeless situation would be 10x worse than it is.

@Carl-Richard Many drug addicts aren't homeless.

Men lie like crazy just for sex. Look in the mirror.

@Alexop If you can find a sexy feminine woman who also has the mind of a Nobel scholar, then marry her. But such women are hard to find and are exceptions, not the norm. Yes, there are very academic women, but many of them come off quite masculine. Of course not all. You posted a video of a masculine woman. So I don't see how this challenges what I said. If you wanna sleep with that woman, go ahead, don't let me stop you.

And men are not?

Sell to desperate fools.

I know it can work.

Porn can be more challenging than drugs because you can easily avoid having drugs in your house. But you cannot avoid your own sex drive. Drugs can be ignored, sex cannot.

He will be back at it soon with some other gimmick, to stay relevant.

It is not so different. That's the point.

If you are able to delude yourself and not question yourself, that can lead to a kind of happiness. Delusional people can be happy precisely because they are so deluded. But that is incompatible with our work here. You have to not be a truth-seeker/philosopher. Imagine a slave master who is so deluded he thinks that slavery is good for his slaves. This keeps him happy. But if he ever realizes how evil slavery is, he will be in horrible pain. So it's a question of whether he can keep himself that deluded for his entire life. Maybe he can, maybe he can't. And of course, his slaves could kill him in his sleep. But he could also get away with it.

What women need is not polygamy. Lol

Infinity is the true nature.

No

You can do a non-legal ritual. Of course I am not saying marriage is wrong for everyone. This is a thread about polygamy. Don't forget.