Jamie:

Welcome to the group.
I am interested in the term you use: “technium.”
I wonder if you would provide the definition you apply to “technium.”

Best regards,

Waldemar

Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
(Perseveret et Percipiunt)
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> On Jul 27, 2018, at 2:09 AM, Mathew Jamie Dunbaugh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks, I hadn't recognized the problem as a cultural identity crisis 
> In my understanding, we're reverting to the identities that give people self-esteem while other forces keep us from being violent.  
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> I'd say that the current state of the left is actually progress, not to say that it's good. It's that we've started to confront hard truths and we're trying to figure out how to deal with them. We've "discovered" systemic racism, and we're trying to figure out how to deal with that. 
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> I'm inclined to think (and hope) that whoever runs against Trump in 2020 will be more centered, or Trump will get re-elected. 
> Because 
> 1) I don't think the left's identity politics can unify around anything.  
> 2) Trump is probably the best the far right can ever get. 
> 
> The ratcheting of justification will continue towards a more large-scale integration of society. And the global conversation about what's just and true will distill what actually works. 
> 
> We're going to have to become tolerant of facts ...and more nuanced in order to keep from reinforcing unjust cultural fictions. And all this while we change the truths we can change. 
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> Eventually, we're going to have to have a celebrated global identity, and I think that can only happen when we can find self-esteem from being a part of the world...which means that eventually, the technium will have to include everyone in its care. 
> 
> Also, I think Jordan Peterson is the beginning of a new "religion", or value-system of transcendence being formed. Part of my inspiration for the Moral Apex was in response to Peterson's philosophy. Peterson argues that embodying and telling the truth is what allows people to rise in dominance hierarchies, or embody the logos or whatever. I wish this were actually true today. It doesn't seem so to me. 
> 
> It's twisted that Peterson uses Jesus as the example of someone who achieves transcendence when he was actually killed. If a person aims to be completely truthful and act in the interests of universal well-being, it seems to me that they'd get eaten alive. 
> 
> But I think we are moving towards the truth winning out. A big part of that is discovering (and admitting) what's true. I think many forces are converging to make this so. Threats from within will increase if we don't include everyone. The only means of consensus that works is the actual truth.
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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Hi List,
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>   I have completed an initial draft of a five part blog series on Jordan Peterson. It does not have all the links and references, but I am done working on it for the time being and thought I would share. I am going out of town next week, and will be likely posting it the week I get back, right now shooting for August 10.
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> If folks are interested, and read it and have reactions, recommendations, concerns or comments, I would, of course, welcome that.
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> Warm regards,
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> Gregg
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