Dec 252010
StriveDrive Worldview Highlights
StriveDrive consciousness exists in a hierarchy of worldviews:
- · SurvivalSense / Instinctive —beige
- · KinSpirits / Clannish / Tribal—purple
- · PowerGods / Egocentric / Warrior—red
- · TruthForce / Purposeful / Traditional—blue
- · StriveDrive / Strategic / Modernist—orange
- · HumanBond / Relativistic / Postmodern—green
- · FlexFlow / Systemic / Integral—yellow
- · GlobalView / Holistic—Turquoise
StriveDrive consciousness exhibits typical characteristics:
- · Perceived life conditions:
- o Opportunities for a better standard of living and improved social position for the individual
- o Need to escape oppressive dogmatic systems
- o Need to demystify material world
- · Worldview and values:
- o Achieve wealth, status, and “the good life”
- o Progress through science, technology, and the “best” solution
- o Winning, competition, and striving for excellence
- o Individual autonomy and independence—liberty
- · Contribution to the spiral:
- o Meritocracy
- o Upward mobility
- o The middle class
- o Excellence for competition
- o Science, technology, and confidence in progress
- · Pathology:
- o Materialism
- o Nihilism
- o Exploitive
- o Unscrupulous
- o Selfish, greedy
- · Contemporary examples:
- o Corporate culture
- o Modern science
- o Mainstream media
- o Professional sports
- · Organizational structures:
- o Democratic capitalism
- o Corporations
- o Strategic alliances
- · Exemplary leaders:
- o John F. Kennedy
- o Bill Gates
- o Margaret Sanger
- o Carl Sagan
- o Isaac Newton
- · Estimated percent of the world population:
- o 15%
- · Estimated per cent of wealth & political power:
- o 60%
- · Techno-economic mode of production:
- o Industrial economy
- · Key technologies:
- o Scientific method
- o Advanced mathematics
- o Reason, logic
- o Technologies
- o Transportation technologies
- o Communication technologies
- · Type of medicine:
- o Scientific and allopathic medicine
- · The true:
- o Objective truth
- o Reason
- o That which can be materially proved
- · The beautiful:
- o Fashionable symbols of power and prestige
- o Plummer
- o Classical music, jazz music
- · The good:
- o Progress
- o Liberty
- o Material wealth
- o Status
- o Opportunity
- o Higher education
- o “The good life”
- · Average neurological activation:
- o Left brain dominated
- · Transition triggers:
- o Spiritual experience
- o Dissatisfaction with positions
- o Feelings of emptiness
- o Guilt
- o Allures of counterculture
- · Other names for this stage:
- o StriveDrive
- o Achievement consciousness
- o Formal operational
- o Strategic thinking
- o Modernist
- o Orange meme
Resources:
Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview is Transforming Politics, Culture and Spirituality, Steve McIntosh, Paragon House, 2007
Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change, Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan, Blackwell Publishing, 1996