Holarchies Over Hierarchies: Rethinking Economic Growth with Ken Wilber’s Insights | ChatGPT 4o

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Can you unpack Ken Wilber’s insights into postmodernism’s aperspectival madness, performative contradictions and their confusing healthy from unhealthy hierarchies and how a developmental-contextualized perspective constructed world view based on this understanding of the intrinsic habits of the developing interiors is the way to continue to grow and develop?
How can these insights be applied to define healthy versus unhealthy economic growth?
How can economic growth framed in unhealthy domination hierarchical terms affect the other SDGs, and how by refraining economic growth in healthy actualization holarchical terms will make a world of difference in perceptions and outcomes?
How can the degrowth ecosocialist movement as championed by Jason Hickel among others benefit from the insights presented here?
So is true to say that the degrowth ecosocialist movement would degrow unhealthy domination growth but grow healthy actualization growth while minimizing consumption and waste by creating a safe and just space within the healthy boundaries of sufficiently provisioning the social foundations and respecting the planetary boundaries?
Can you write an article summarizing this grand narrative?
Can you give possible titles for blog articles representing our discussion?
Can you create a vibrant image without words reflecting this?

The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth / A Bibliography of Limits

Aldous Huxley predicted this eventuality. “There are many roads to Brave New World,” he wrote in 1958. “[B]ut perhaps the straightest and the broadest of them is the road we are traveling today, the road that leads through gigantic numbers and accelerating increases.” A planet with a population and economy so large it produces a permanent civilizational emergency, a state of constant crisis, is one ripe for “permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.” This would be the ultimate irony of the growthist faith, underpinned as it is by free-market fundamentalism: Only the tyrannical state, with its monopoly on violence, its enormous bureaucracies, its tentacles reaching into every facet of life, will have the power to save us from the stupidity that we called the freedom to grow forever. Read More

It’s NOT the economy, but human and community development, stupid!

There is an unholy alliance between our money system, business management practices and our politics. I have come to this conclusion recently based on the happenings here at home and in the wider global arena.

All three, based on credit creation, vocational management, and public policy creation and implementation, respectively, revolve around a monoculture of ideas that reinforce each other in self-serving ways. They manufacture dysfunctional disorderly behaviours at all levels from the individual up to our institutions, be they local, regional or international. These initial public goods and services have been captured by private-money vested interests, and are manipulated for self-serving wants out of greed and fear of scarcity, not out of love for human and community development and self-sufficiency.