Spiral Dynamics Stage Red Examples Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

Time to get some Red examples going up in here.

Try to find some healthy ones too. Red is all too easy to demonize.

List of Stage Red Values:

• Personal power, strength, might, brute force
• Displays of toughness
• Brazen courage, valor, heroism, daring
• Being the boss, being #1, winning at all costs
• Conquering one’s enemies, domination
• The thrill of conquest
• Warrior mentality, a glorious death, heroic deeds
• Competitive, crush your opponents
• Resolving disputes with ruthless force
• Winning, victory, conquest, triumph against odds
• Ambition, playing it big
• Revenge
• Respect
• Loyalty
• Decisiveness, assertiveness
• Passion, action
• Pragmatic, direct, no-nonsense
• Taking initiative & ownership, personal willpower
• Getting things done, just do it
• Unilateral control, executive power
• Glitz, ostentatious displays, grandiosity
• Wants to be bigger than life
• Status, recognition of prowess
• Machismo, pride, bragging
• Charisma, plain talk
• Intimidation, manipulation, exploitation
• Sexual conquest & exploitation
• Sex as power and vanity, sadistic sex
• Enjoying life to the fullest
• Adventure, thrill-seeking, living boldly
• Power contests, like slapping/arm-wrestling
• Breaking rules, finding loop holes
• Breaking with the pack & pushing the envelope

 

Stage Red Examples:

Trump, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Syria, Hitler, Stalin, Liberia, Somalia, North Korea, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Haiti, Africa, Middle East, Palestine, warlords, mafia, Tony Soprano, Al Capone, pirates, marauders, gangs, Yakuza, violent prisoners, prison culture, freedom fighters, revolutionaries, criminals, rapists, con artists, thieves, terrorists, juvenile delinquents, ancient Rome, gladiator combat, Caligula, Nero, Roman emperors, spartan, Chinese emperors, Japanese emperors, Alexander the Great, Achilies, Klingons, hackers, toxic narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, lone shooters, Conan the Barbarians, Joe Pesci from Casino, Russian mob, toxic masculinity / Red Pill, vikings, Genghis Khan, Mongol hordes, drug addicts, gamblers, criminal underground, war criminals, massacres, torture, rape gangs, wild rock stars, Jules from Pulp Fiction, Joffery from GoT, Ramsey from GoT, Cersie from GoT, Dothraki from GoT, the Joker, cult leaders like Jim Jones & Charles Manson, David Koresh, Aztec human sacrifice, pimps, hustlers, prostitutes, sex trafficking, brothels, strippers, porn stars, violent porn, snuff films, king’s harems, absolute monarchs, feudalism, heads on pikes, Vlad the Impaler, crucifixion, cutting off body parts, cruel & unusual punishment, villains in movies, bullies, colonial exploitation, sweat shops, slavery, wild west, Terminator, Rambo, throwing objects when angry, cocaine, heroine, crack, meth users, suicide bombers, lesser Jihad, ISIS, domestic violence, MMA / UFC, boxing, Mike Tyson, Don King, Connor McGregor, bank robbers, the tyrannical boss, bribery, bling, gold teeth & chains, the hood, drive-by shootings, bloodsport, cock fighting, dog fighting, animal cruelty, sports fights, pro wrestling, movie Lord of War, Alex Jones, L Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige, 9/11, Oklahoma City bombing, some incels, some pickup, Jeffy rape van, Kanye dragon energy, rap music, heavy metal music, punk music, Mexican drug cartels, El Chapo, Grand Theft Auto game, graffiti, No Country For Old Men, Old Testament, Sith from Star Wars, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Dan Pena, hunting homeless people for sport, Black Panthers, KKK, Machiavelli, women as property

[Leo Gura]

 

 

 

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[Kross]

This classic can't be ignored lol

 

[Leo Gura]

 

[Adam M]

Number 3:

"Never trust nobody! Yo momma set that ass up properly gased up, hoodied and masked up... for that fast buck...she be layin in the bushes to light that ass up..."

Biggie shares his manifesto from his experience dealing crack on the streets of NY...

 

 

[StudentOfLeove]

 

[integral]

"The world will remember your name" 

Edited June 26, 2020 by integral

[Moon]

 

 

 

[Adam M]

 

Vivid story of Kendrick's experience growing up w his friends on the streets of Compton.

[Leo Gura]

Orange meets Red:

"Personally I blame MTV."

A brilliant film, BTW.

[Moon]

 

 

 

 

 

[Roy]

@Leo Gura Since it's likely you won't make videos about the earlier stages, can you make a detailed thread about Beige, Purple, Red?

I get most of SD but I don't understand the transitions between the earlier stages as much. They seem a bit more ambiguous to me than Orange to Green for example. 

[Leo Gura]

18 minutes ago, Roy said:

@Leo Gura Since it's likely you won't make videos about the earlier stages, can you make a detailed thread about Beige, Purple, Red?

I get most of SD but I don't understand the transitions between the earlier stages as much. They seem a bit more ambiguous to me than Orange to Green for example. 

There will be videos on Purple and Red.

This is the foreplay

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, Cykaaaa said:

 

Awesome!

Walter White's entire character arc in Breaking Bad is Blue regressing to Red.

[Leo Gura]

9 minutes ago, Cykaaaa said:

Red at its core seems so primitive, exploitative to me.

Part of the challenge here is seeing the relativity of "healthy". You are in some sense applying a stage Green idea of "health" to stage Red. But stage Red survival happens in a very different environment than modern developed society. So even a warlord or a mobster is not necessarily unhealthy once you consider the environment they have been forced to survive in. It mostly becomes unhealthy when you put that warlord into a modern developed society.

Notice, you don't blame a crocodile for being unhealthy when he snaps at an antelope.

Yes, it's primitive and exploitative (by today's standards).

[Akemrelax]

This movie/novel covers stage red very well.

 

[Carl-Richard]

OMG IT'S TIME! IT'S FINALLY HERE! WHY AM I SO EXCITED FOR THIS???
 

36:53

- "Ok so you just think anyone should be able to torture their dog to death?"
- "Pretty much yeah, because it's a possession and you don't extend the same rights to the animal that you would to humans, yeah."

Notice how the chat just freaks out when he says that hahaha

Destiny's paradigm in this debate is logically self-consistent but overtly egoistic. It's kinda hilarious how during the course of the debate it just progressively leads to deeper and deeper pits of Red and how he has no qualms about conceding on truly horrendous hypotheticals in order to remain consistent . This debate was arguably the origin of the meme that Destiny is a sociopath. What is also interesting is that Vegan Gains is a self-admitted sociopath even though he advocates for veganism.

 

 

Phil Anselmo's raw aggressive energy is the best example of Red I've seen in a performing music artist
 

This song called "So You Die" is extreme Red in a nutshell

Edited June 27, 2020 by Carl-Richard

[Lyubov]

 

 

[Florian]

I love Mike Tyson

 

Edited June 27, 2020 by Florian