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Brian Johnson Gets (Integral) Naked Part 2
Part 1 is cool. But this Part 2 is just perfect of the Labor Day holiday...
(via zPod:Integral Institute)
Entrepreneurial Idealism and the Integral Model. Part 2. Right Bucks. Right Business. Right View.
”Brian Johnson is the co-Founder and Philosopher/CEO of social networking phenomenon Zaadz.com, a website which is one of Integral Institute’s esteemed “Integral Friends.”* A 32-year-old font of idealism-in-action, Brian is a rather extraordinary example of the passion, creativity, and drive of an emerging wave of integrally-oriented twenty- and thirty-somethings worldwide.
“Brian
beings the conversation by mentioning his passion for “conscious
capitalism,” and how the Zaadz “plan” as described on the site actually
leads with capitalism, and then mentions the spiritual emphasis. He
comments, “I deliberately do that… I’m trying to create a compelling
‘yes-and’ story here.” In other words, he’s trying to take a more
integral perspective and show how capitalism and spirituality can not
only coexist, but actually support each other. However, he continues,
not everyone is so excited to see these two things come together, and
certain camps have been particularly vocal in denouncing his entire
approach, following a general “capitalist pig” theme.
As Ken
comments, there are several different things going on here. To begin,
even more fundamental than how one might feel about capitalism—or any
of the economic systems available—is how one feels about money in
general. Generally speaking, a strong negative view of money can be
attributed to either 1. exclusively ascending types of spirituality or
2. the green altitude of development (types and altitude/levels being
two of the five elements in the AQAL Approach, the others being
quadrants, lines, and states).”
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(also posted on zPod:Starship Social Enterprise)
P.S. Here's the link [PDF] to the Right Bucks essay that Ken Wilber wrote two decades ago. Happy (right) Labor Day!
September 4, 2006 at 05:34 AM in Integral Stuff, Social Enterprise, Web/Tech, Zaadz | Permalink
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So, how much does Brian "13" Johnson PAY to rub up against Wilber in the hopes of getting some Kenny mojo?
This, like your blog, is a function of crass capitalism, right? Rip off the reader for the sake of profit?
Funny. When book reviewers are exposed as having been paid by publishers or authors to deliver good reviews, we look upon it with horror. Here, Brian and you are doing very much the same things -- advertising tacitly disguised as opinion -- and you suppose that it is ethical.
Shame on you C4. Shame on Brian and Ken, too.
Posted by: Tom A. | Sep 4, 2006 7:57:03 AM
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." -- Source: via Silk Road Fortune Cookie via zQuotes
Posted by: ~C4Chaos | Sep 4, 2006 8:14:31 AM
Wilber's Right Bucks article is monsterous. It justifies the deception that you all are participating in. It is an ethical loophole only Ken Lay and his scurvy ilk could love.
Writes the fallen Wilber, "... we will drag the Dharma, kicking and screaming, into the modern and postmodern world only when every one of these "anti" stances (money, food, sex, body, earth, woman) is attacked simultaneously: they stand or fall together."
Yep. Wilber says fuck Buddha, let us make Oprah a deity. He justifies his rush toward wealth and celebrity and being preened and catered to as a Right to Abundance. He believes in his manifest unique specialness and right to fuck the rest of the world. Wilber and the Hitlerization of Buddhism. Kill the mean-green jews.
Lucky you, C4. You get to be part of it.
Posted by: Tom A. | Sep 4, 2006 8:20:27 AM
Wow... Can someone say, "Shadow"? 'Cuz Tom, yours is seeping out all over the place.
Posted by: Matthew | Sep 4, 2006 7:47:36 PM
Naw. It's High Noon in Tomville.
Posted by: Tom A. | Sep 4, 2006 10:36:02 PM
How Wyatt Earpy is that?
Posted by: Jon Zuck | Sep 8, 2006 4:50:17 PM
