Subject: Jack and the Bean Stalk Politics Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:16:41 +0200 From: Frank Visser To: f.visser3@chello.nl WILBER FRIENDS MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.worldofkenwilber.com Amsterdam, April 16 2003 Hi Wilber Friend, The response to Wilber's recent posting on Iraq has been overwhelming. More than 1.000 visitors a day have downloaded the page from the World of Ken Wilber website. In a third installment of his letter on Iraq, Wilber now comments on the major drawback of Tony Blair's "Jack and the Bean Stalk" politics: "In my opinion, the major item missing in the stance of Blair, not to mention the other major political leaders, is some sort of sophisticated developmental perspective, which, to put it briefly, is one of five major dimensions in an integral approach; i.e., it is the "levels" aspect of "quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types." One of the saddest of the non-integral effects of the present world leadership is the continuing turmoil caused by Western democracies imagining that they can drop an orange-meme democracy with green-meme sensitivity smack in the middle of a red-meme desert and somehow it will grow. This is not world policy; this is Jack and the Bean Stalk." Read more... Welcome page, top link - you know the way by now. some of you had trouble locating the link, so i have made the "W I L B E R S W R I T I N G S O N T H E C U R R E N T W O R L D C R I S I S" item a bit more prominent. Finally, this Newsletter has become a daily affair ;-) frank -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 PV A'dam, Netherlands Pay a visit to my homepage: http://members.ams.chello.nl/f.visser3 Read all about Ken Wilber: http://www.worldofkenwilber.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx