Spiral Dynamics Stage Green Examples Mega-Thread

[integral]

On 11/14/2020 at 9:36 AM, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Alright, I see you guys like Stonetoss. He's a rather right wing cartoonist, but his comics are funny.

This is a minecraft 2b2t reference, the oldest anarchy server. 

Anything goes on this server including hacks, building needs to be done in secret or else its quickly targeted by groups and destroyed. 

Red dominates and destroys any progress. 

Edited November 16, 2020 by integral

[Guest EmptyVase]

Originally, I wanted to post this in the Mastery Mega Thread, but the whole scenery is just so much more fitting to this thread. 

Damn.. I would have loved being a hippie back in the days.

 

 

[DocWatts]

Not sure if anyone else here is a Terry Pratchett fan, but his satirical Discworld series comes to mind. 
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

Edited November 20, 2020 by DocWatts

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, DocWatts said:

Not sure if anyone else here is a Terry Pratchett fan, but his satirical Discworld series comes to mind. 
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

The reality is much more brutal than merely that.

The reality is that the reason rich people are rich is mostly because the whole society is rigged like a pyramid scheme to funnel money upward toward the very top 1% to 10% of society, thus basically enslaving the bottom 90% to be the servants of the top 10%. And then those top 10% are so happy and so powerful that they have zero interest in change the system because it serves them perfectly, and the bottom 90% are too poor and too busy working for the top 10% to do anything about it.

This is how all human civilizations have functioned for some 10,000 years since ancient Egypt. And it continues to this day.

[Shunyata]

@Leo Gura do you think the spiritual revolution is our only hope?

Edited November 20, 2020 by Shunyata

[DocWatts]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The reality is much more brutal than merely that.

The reality is that the reason rich people are rich is mostly because the whole society is rigged like a pyramid scheme to funnel money upward toward the very top 1% to 10% of society, thus basically enslaving the bottom 90% to be the servants of the top 10%. And then those top 10% are so happy and so powerful that they have zero interest in change the system because it serves them perfectly, and the bottom 90% are too poor and too busy working for the top 10% to do anything about it.

This is how all human civilizations have functioned for some 10,000 years since ancient Egypt. And it continues to this day.

Of course. And where you end up in Society is due to a compounding series of advantages or disadvantages that are rationalized in the West by labeling it a 'Meritocracy'. Positions are open to all! Provided you didn't get f*cked by the Birth Lottery, then you just didn't try hard enough.

The Terry Pratchett example above was more meant to demonstrate someone who has an intuitive understanding of the Poverty Cycle (being poor is expensive, and makes just about everything in life more difficult); but point well taken.
 

Edited November 20, 2020 by DocWatts

[bejapuskas]

 

[Megan Alecia]

Vogue

[Raze]

 

[Forestluv]

 

[Raphael]

 

[andyjohnsonman]

Pewdiepie cringing at a green hippie

 

 

[Thewritersunion]

Lower stages being open to parts of Green:

 

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, Thewritersunion said:

Lower stages being open to parts of Green:

 

For all the shit that progressives talk at the Lincoln Project, their actually philosophy is spot-on.

These guys need to form a sane conservative party because conservatives are not going away. It's simply of question of: will we have sane conservatives or bat-shit crazy ones?

I actually feel bad for sane conservatives because in the era of Trump they have no voice. It's Trump or nothing at all -- and that is no sustainable. It is possible to be a reasonable conservative, but they get no voice.

Progressives make a mistake when they demonize reasonable conservatives like the Lincoln guys and David Frum -- leaving no alternative but bat-shit crazy.

[Shin]

On 11/4/2020 at 7:22 PM, Rilles said:

I saw they had put up same-sex traffic lights in Sweden this summer. Instead of a woman or man it was two men or women walking together with a heart symbol, so Green haha!

This would be a scandal in France

[Preety_India]

Oh c'mon, green is not always hippie. Just look at me. 

[Ponder]

Epic speech from an impassioned Charlie Chaplin

[diamondpenguin]

@Preety_India your very hippie though. Guessing that was a sarcastic statement.

[Preety_India]

Just now, diamondpenguin said:

@Preety_India your very hippie though. Guessing that was a sarcastic statement.

Lol really? 

Hey I actually thought I wasn't a hippie. 

Well then good to know from someone else. It's good to be a cool hippie smoking grass under a tree in the forest 

 

~~hippie vibes—> @Preety_India <—
 

[Carl-Richard]

9 hours ago, Preety_India said:

Lol really? 

Hey I actually thought I wasn't a hippie. 

Well then good to know from someone else. It's good to be a cool hippie smoking grass under a tree in the forest 

 

~~hippie vibes—> @Preety_India <—
 

I feel hippie is the most relative term on the planet. I have no idea what it means most of the time