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Newsletter Nr. 934
Amsterdam, May 16th, 2021


AN INTEGRAL SCAM - from Steve McIntosh and the Institute for Cultural Evolution? - JOE CORBETT

The mission of Steve McIntosh and the Institute for Cultural Evolution is “to foster political evolution in America by focusing on hyper-partisan polarization”. They see hyper-polarization as “a cultural problem that requires a cultural solution”, the solution of becoming a “post-progressive” society. In so doing they claim to address the “conflicting values underlying our poisoned politics”, and they want Americans to “achieve consensus”, or “bring peace to the culture wars”, by reviving “our collective sense of common cause and thereby restore the functionality of our democracy”.

Framing the issue of polarization in America and around the world this way, trying to reduce global divisions to cultural polarization without addressing the underlying class polarization, is classic petty-bourgeois idealism, and it reveals the new age boomerism implicit in such an approach.

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