Corey deVos

And that’s why I think Trump, like the Hawk Tuah girl, could only ascend in a deeply postmodern environment such as this :-)

What do you think?

This is what happens when stages of development create artifacts such as social media, which then becomes a key operating system for civilization. Everyone is now participating in the postmodern age, even the ones who are not themselves capable of generating or understanding postmodern thoughts.

We used to know that things like Twitter were basically a circus-mirror reflection of reality, but at some point I think we stared too long into that mirror, and fell through the looking glass.

And without a new kind of media literacy to help us see through this stuff, it’s like having a trillion stars in the sky, allowing you to constellate them however you like in order to sell whatever mythology you want to sell.

Social media has become a Warholian nightmare where everyone’s “15 minutes of fame” are stretched to infinity and become the basis of a new set of 21st-century immortality projects.

It has created a Dunning-Kruger wasteland — a pathologically decentralized, personality-driven info ecosystem where the volume of your expression is more important than the quality of your expression. And think the right has done a better job of weaponizing this than the left.

It allows information to flow around the community of the adequate, rather than through it, blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and socially-engineered narratives, all of which now slide frictionlessly across our screens and into our awareness.

This is essentially because our information flow has become 100% postmodernized — social media platforms have flattened and relativized our perspectives, fragmented our shared reality, and collapsed growth hierarchies while being weaponized by dominator hierarchies.

I think Trump’s viability as a politician is itself the product of the postmodern condition that almost 100% of us are now subject to, regardless of our own personal developmental capacities.

Hey Phil! I’ve mentioned it a few times in various discussions, but the basic idea is that postmodernism isn’t only a product of a particular vertical stage, it is also a horizontal culture that can be participated in by anyone, from any stage.

A new piece I made for my daughter’s 12th birthday.

Walnut, curly maple, and copper.

Oh wow, I’d love to learn how/why this video had such a big impact on you, if you feel like sharing!

YouTube video by Integral Life Holons: The Building Blocks of the Universe

The most fun I’ve ever had producing a video. A deep dive into one of the essential cornerstones of integral theory — holons, or the apparently endless series of “part/wholes” that fundamentally compose reality as we know it.

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Welcome to Integral Life – Integral Life “At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse – a “one world” – a single, unified, integrated world...” — Ken Wi...

9/ It’s time to step back, put all the pieces on the table, and start seeing the whole elephant. Integral Metatheory helps us do just that. Let’s move beyond fragmentation and into a more integral future.

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8/ Integral Metatheory isn’t just a philosophy. It’s a survival strategy. By situating knowledge and reconnecting our silos, it helps us meet the life conditions of our time: a world desperate for coherence, context, and shared purpose. It’s a roadmap for our evolution.

7/ In many ways, the fragmentation of culture, identity, sense-making, and meaning is the defining crisis of our time. It’s the water we’re swimming in. Integral offers the antidote—a way to integrate our fractured world and rebuild shared understanding and common ground.

6/ Integral Metatheory is that framework. It allows us to recognize the validity of all perspectives, their methods, and their limits. It situates knowledge. It shows us how these seemingly conflicting truths are describing different facets of the same underlying reality.

5/ Whether it’s physics, psychology, politics, economics, or spirituality — every knowledge tradition discloses a piece of reality. But without a framework to hold these pieces together, they often end up at war with each other—and sometimes with themselves.

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2/ These algorithms don’t care about truth or coherence—they care about clicks. As a result, we’ve lost a shared sense of reality. Polarization thrives. Blind men argue. No one is seeing the whole elephant. No one is putting the pieces together.

But what if we could?

1/ One of the greatest challenges of our time is the total fragmentation of our information ecology. Everyone’s living in their own silo, mediated by algorithms designed to keep you engaged, not informed. We’re all blind men describing different parts of a forgotten elephant.

Between this, the recent Underworld album (Strawberry Hotel), and Metallica’s 72 Seasons, some of my favorite albums these days are being made by the elderly 🤣

Absolutely loving this new Cure album. It’s warm, sweet, sad, and deeply reflective. Reminds me in some ways of Bowie’s final album, pulling beauty out of finality with deep gratitude for the overwhelming fullness of life.

That's awesome Jeremy, congratulations!

Well said Jeff, and aligns with my experience as well. Interesting to note how this aversion arises when "returning" to the self concept, and how self WANTS to introject. Reminds me of the dangers of doing Tonglen incorrectly, not knowing how to properly release the suffering we take on from others.

YouTube video by Integral Life From the 4 Quadrants to the 8 Horizons of Love

A short presentation I did to help people better understand the fundamental perspectives available to human beings. I'll be doing a much larger presentation and walkthrough soon on IntegralLife.com, so stay tuned!

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YouTube video by Integral Life How to Get Political Polarities Out of Your Shadow

A two-step process for dealing with opposing viewpoints.

My current challenge, at the intersection of waking up and cleaning up — how to be “one with” the overwhelming rottenness of the world, without introjecting that rot back into my self-system. A tension between “everything is arising within me” and “I don’t want this arising within me”.