Red, Amber, and Orange are all anti-green.īut Green for its part, despite all its protestations of enlightened inclusivity and open-mindedness, despises and ridicules Red, Amber and Orange. We all bring a point of view with its preconceptions and prejudices to bear in any interaction with any other person or group of people.įor Wilber, what happened in the US Presidential election is that the Red, Amber, and Orange worldviews united in opposition to the Green which has been the major cultural force in the western world for the past 50 years. The important point Wilber makes is that we all have a worldview. No person or group can be completely described by any one colour. Like individual personality typing (Myers Briggs, the Enneagram, etc.), these categories are only broad sweeping generalizations. Greens are determinedly politically correct. Greens value equality above all else, even more than freedom and are willing to limit free speech if it seems likely to be hurtful to anyone. There is no such thing as universal truth, except that there is no such thing as universal truth. “Truth” is only a shifting cultural interpretation. For greens, all truth gains its meaning only from its context. Green – Post-Modernism: is pluralistic, relativistic, individualistic, and multi-cultural, aims for self-actualization, stresses the human-bond. Strives “to treat all people-not just a special group but all people-fairly regardless of race, color, sex, or creed.”Ĥ. Orange – worldcentric Modernism: view with a strong emphasis on reason, secularism, materialism, self-reliance, and achievement. It emphasizes law and order and rigid hierarchy and is strongly nationalistic.ģ. This worldview carries a strong sense of “right” and “wrong” and sets clear parameters for morality. Amber – ethnocentric (“myspecialgroup”): a traditional worldview that places faith in God, or at least in Absolute Truth. This worldview is preconventional, selfserving, selfpromoting, and narcissistic.Ģ. Red – egocentric: the warrior king focuses on the heroic individual who rises above the tribe emerging as a heroic noble figure able to navigate the dangerous jungle of life using his or her magical powers. But for the purposes of his essay on “Trump And A Post-Truth World,” it is necessary to have some familiarity with only four:ġ. Wilber identifes at least nine distinct worldviews. In an attempt to avoid judgments and labels, Wilber assigns a colour to each of these paradigms. Wilber argues that people, cultures, and particular periods in history are characterized by different worldviews or paradigms. In order to grasp Wilber’s thesis, it is important to have a little background. Wilber’s piece, “Trump And A Post-Truth World: An Evolutionary Self-Correction” should be read in its entirety and can be viewed as a free e-book here: In the shadow of the 8 November 2016 US election, Wilber has offered a 90 page analysis of the Trump victory and the attitude he believes all citizens need to adopt in order for the world community to move in a positive direction. Ken Wilber is an American author, thinker, and cultural philosopher.
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