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1/ Some of us see a New America being born - multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, even multisexual. We think "Wow, how cool!" because we see it as the full actualization of America's highest destiny: unity in diversity with an extraordinary richness of talent and creativity.
2/ But what to some of us seems like an exciting prospect seems to others like a psychic annihilation of sorts, a destruction of a homogeneity that they've always identified with & which they see as the source of their authority and power. That's the contest that underlies it all
3/ Many changes are long overdue. But they represent such dramatic shift in the minds of so many that it behooves us to be patient & magnanimous, even towards those who were neither of those things towards us. Change takes time to process & people need to feel safe as they do it.
4/ That doesn't mean we should slow down!! No! We need to keep persevering, never letting up, especially now that the fruits of our fervor are beginning to appear. But on a personal level, the more loving & peaceful we keep the protests, the less chance of a backlash in Nov.
Sounds like Spiral Dynamics!
Still,Dr. Don Beck 's been warning over the last 2 decades (But where? I have to look it up!) that the unhealthy Green meme has a way of dissolving, undermining the healthy Blue and Orange systems. They're necessary to guide (Green-talking) Reds. Otherwise the center cannot hold!
Can all those minds really be changed, and if not, then what?
Well that’s certainly a frighteningly simplistic way of looking at it.
You hit the nail on the head
The US is actually experiencing its foretold dystopia
No one identifies with homogeneity. That's not a thing, Marianne.
No. I'm actually all for diversity. But to say that diversity is definied not by a diversity of ideas, but a diversity of skin colours is a very materialistic way of looking at it. So if this revolution brings more people of different ethnic backgrounds in the conversation, but
with the same mindset, then it's actually no revolution for more freedom for more people. So no revolution.
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