INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 641 Amsterdam, February 3st, 2017 A SELF-HELP GUIDE FOR DEMOCRATS - Review of Ken Wilber's "Trump and a Post-Truth World" - FRANK VISSER I was therefore much surprised to receive a notification from the recently redesigned IntegralLife.com website, which offered a new and long (80 page) essay by Wilber on Trump called "Trump and a Post-Truth World: An Evolutionary Self-Correction". It was published as PDF, not an ebook, and apparently meant to seduce potential members of IntegralLife to sign up to its newsletter. Had Wilber finally found the time to flesh out his ideas on US politics and cast it in the form of a serious essay that could be offered to mainstream political discourse? The subtitle "An Evolutionary Self-Correction" made me shudder. Knowing Ken Wilber's conception of evolution—as a Spirit-driven process in nature and culture, which is at variance with the scientific conception of evolution, and would more aptly be characterized as "pop-evolution"—inside-out and having critiqued it at length on Integral World, it looked form the start like Wilber has attempted to frame this whole Trump-phenomenon in such debatable, pseudo-scientific terms. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser98.html THE MISSING NUANCE - Ken Wilber and the Misuse of Statistics - A Four-Part Critique, Part Two - DAVID LANE In Ken Wilber's recent e-book, Trump and a Post-Truth World, which is filled with a rich array of pregnant opinions, he tends to over generalize using very questionable statistics to support his claims. In this regard, he is all over the map when he employs numbers that appear impossible to justify, much less verify as being based on sound scientific surveying methods. Why Wilber is so sloppy in this regard makes one wonder if he is only interested in propping up his Integral map to those who are already converted. Otherwise, suggesting that “Green is today's major leading-edge stage (with around 20-25% of the population)” without providing where such a percentage comes from is to invoke a not so subtle form of sociological abracadabra. In going over Wilber's various stats (over 30 different citations in the course of his book), one is reminded anew of Mark Twain's popular (and wrongly attributed) witticism, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane116.html