Captain black1

@Leo Gura True. All ideologies that stem from talking apes will be flawed. But on the Hegel/Marx point, even if Hegel POV is more ontologically and metaphysically sound, Marx’s analysis brought about the origins of many things like social security,workers rights, decommodifying certain aspects of our society out of private hands(ie education, healthcare...except in USA lol). Hegel’s view on universal mind is music to the ears for us mystics, and might be the long term goal for humanity in how we relate to reality and each other, but a synthesis of Marx’s work in the immediate future will be equally important if we stand any chance on suriving the coming climate catastrophe and resurgance in far right nationalism. Do I hope that this new trend of Silicon Valley guys doing vipassana retreats/LSD, and Billionaires at DAVOS doing mindfulness retreats will somehow give them mystical experiences that will end their exploitative greed? Yea. But it hasn’t yet, and highly doubt that it will without a highly mobilized and grassroots movement challenging their power, just as it was in the civil rights, abolitionists etc etc. Thanks for your work btw! Been a long time YT subscriber/lurker on the forum. Your book list years ago prepared me for my psych degree in college lol. Excited to see where the conscious politics series goes.

@Leo Gura Have you seen this video by Leftist political commentator Michael Brooks? Excellent analysis on Marxist/Socialist thought in the context of Ken Wilbur's Integral Theory, as well as dismantling plenty of the IDW B.S.