Subject: Wilber on Iraq Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:13:25 +0100 From: Frank Visser To: f.visser3@chello.nl WILBER FRIENDS MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.worldofkenwilber.com Amsterdam, March 23, 2003 Hi Wilber Friend, Wilber asked me to add this piece of text to the Newsletter I sent out yesterday titled "Wilber on World Conflicts": =========================================================== frank, this is a short note i wrote to somebody who asked if i had something else to say since "the deconstruction of the world trade center." obviously a ton can be written, but i am waiting until sane words can be heard at all. words matter little right now, anyway. my heart goes out to the families of the hundreds of thousands of people whom saddam has murdered (is anybody speaking for them in all the protests?); to the many iraqis who will be senselessly killed in this war; to the people who can only see their own values threatened; and the terrible fractures in the world political situation that this war will leave us with. it is indeed unfortunate that it has come to this. Q: do you have anything you would like to add since you wrote "The Deconstruction of the World Trade Centre?" no, but just remember: if you are green, you are against the war. but if you are against the war, you are not necessarily green. there are second-tier reasons not to go to war. but there are also second-tier reasons to go to war. green doesn't have a choice--it won't go. second tier has a choice, so weigh the evidence carefully. second tier might indeed recommend war, it might not. but you can check and see if you are "merely" green by asking under what conditions you would recommend war. if you can't think of any, ahem, welcome to green. still, the issue is enormously complicated, even thru integral lens, so again, weigh the evidence carefully. the problem with this discussion at large is that it is entirely first-tier. blue says bomb the hell out of the evil ones; orange says, okay, but hurry, cuz it's hurting the stock market; green says, no way, let's be loving. first tier has such a hard time seeing big pictures, so it moves around within the partial value structures that define it. this is a discussion that i have stayed out of since doing WTC essay. it's just a big first-tier food fight. unfortunately, the world needs integral action. unfortunately, it will not get it, whether we go to war or not. still, better to light one candle than curse the darkness. so we work on ourselves and attempt to increase our own integral consciousness to some degree each day, so that in the end we leave the world just a little bit more whole than we found it... ====================================================== -- 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