Friday, April 3, 2009

The World of the Terribly Obvious (Mar 31 2007) part 1

2:10 - intersubjective dialogue is important in our deepening our spiritual practice

2:13 - we can only hold our own perspective; sometimes it takes an outside perspective to clearly see what's happening

7:20 - Idealism means setting the bar above where you currently are, with some assurance that you can reach it

16:00 - zones three and four: cultural anthropology is looking at the lower left from the outside (objective), hermeneutics is interpreting the lower left from the inside (subjective)

17:37 - pluralism starts with an important insight: all cultures are different and cannot be bound by any universal principles

17:54 - but that insight quickly slides into relativism: no truth is better than another, there is no objective truth, etc.

18:03 - and that of course leads us to the performative contradiction: you're asserting that there are no universal truths applicable to all cultures, and that truth is universally applicable to all cultures

18:20 - green wants us to believe that it is freeing all viewpoints: it isn't

24:22 - second tier has nested hierarchies, not monolithic hierarchies, hierarchies of internal growth, not of external oppression

24:40 - all growth hierarchies are non-oppressive

24:45 - oppression is a pathology within the actualization or growth holarchy

26:08 - the paradigm of the pre-post fallacy: they (green, usually) understand the problems with modernity, but they romanticize pre-modernity

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