06-27-2019, 03:20 PM
I think about the v-memes of spiral dynamics once in a while, and I know some people here do too. And about their political bent. It can be a bit confusing. It's not Blue Republican vs. Orange Democrat.
First of all, Orange is mainly a libertarian meme, and that is the Republican backbone. That's why I insert a Lemon meme, because Lemons are socialists, or social Democrats, but are still mechanistic, like for example Mikebert here.
Then the Greens represent those Democrats (and many Green Party members) who are not so mechanistic, but touchy-feely. But some greens are really more Lemon, which is basically the mid-19th century humanitarian and altruistic attitude sometimes attributed to Greens; but Lemon greens are green on ecology because of science, while Greens per se are green on ecology because they love nature and think it's alive, and love everything organic.
The Turquoise meme people, few though they are, fold in with Green. While Greens are post-modern relativists who respect diversity, their key idea is that we are all one people on one planet. The mystical and new age Turquoise people just carry that a bit further by realizing that we are all essentially part of the One, and many Green memers are also new age mystics too.
While the few Yellows around are hard to fold into any political group, being flowing and adaptable, and are certainly not reactionary, essentially Yellow has a regressive streak, seeking to fold all the past memes together into an integral whole. And their respect for hierarchy (in answer to the green and lemon levelers) folds in with Orange competitiveness.
Blue of course is the Religious Right. And I also inserted Brown, which was a stage in history (state royalism) between Blue and Orange, which has few literal adherents today, but though still religious to a degree, was also secular, humanist and science-trending as opposed to Blue, but not so democratic or libertarian. Orange is scientific, but also opens up to the science of the invisible, whereas Brown was the science of the visible. And that opens up Orange to the new physics, at least for a few Oranges.
First of all, Orange is mainly a libertarian meme, and that is the Republican backbone. That's why I insert a Lemon meme, because Lemons are socialists, or social Democrats, but are still mechanistic, like for example Mikebert here.
Then the Greens represent those Democrats (and many Green Party members) who are not so mechanistic, but touchy-feely. But some greens are really more Lemon, which is basically the mid-19th century humanitarian and altruistic attitude sometimes attributed to Greens; but Lemon greens are green on ecology because of science, while Greens per se are green on ecology because they love nature and think it's alive, and love everything organic.
The Turquoise meme people, few though they are, fold in with Green. While Greens are post-modern relativists who respect diversity, their key idea is that we are all one people on one planet. The mystical and new age Turquoise people just carry that a bit further by realizing that we are all essentially part of the One, and many Green memers are also new age mystics too.
While the few Yellows around are hard to fold into any political group, being flowing and adaptable, and are certainly not reactionary, essentially Yellow has a regressive streak, seeking to fold all the past memes together into an integral whole. And their respect for hierarchy (in answer to the green and lemon levelers) folds in with Orange competitiveness.
Blue of course is the Religious Right. And I also inserted Brown, which was a stage in history (state royalism) between Blue and Orange, which has few literal adherents today, but though still religious to a degree, was also secular, humanist and science-trending as opposed to Blue, but not so democratic or libertarian. Orange is scientific, but also opens up to the science of the invisible, whereas Brown was the science of the visible. And that opens up Orange to the new physics, at least for a few Oranges.