The Evolution of Democracy

This book introduces a new grammar of value grounded in First Principles and First Values as the interior structure of the Universe. To live aligned with these principles is to become a post-tragic hero—not the old hero of conquest, but a new, tender, fierce lover of value. The hero is the one who stands for value and is willing to even die for value. The premodern hero is pre-tragic. For him, value is clear. There are no conflicts, there is only one version of value that is right. That version is sourced in direct revelation which takes place only within his native or chosen religion. Late modernity and post modernity problematize heroism itself. Since, as they dogmatically declare, value is not real, and the hero is one who stands for value, then virtually all heroes are either naïve fools or disguised villains. The post-tragic hero lives in the field of eternal and evolving value. The post-tragic hero rejects simplistic visions of value that do not dance with the dialectics of competing value and which polarize and instead of hold paradox. The post-tragic hero lives with open eyes and an unguarded heart, not because she bypasses the heartbreak of the tragic, but because she lives both in it and through it. Heartbreak is a form of holy revelation, and it opens us to shadow work—where the disowned parts of the self become portals to deeper value and wholeness. To live in and through heartbreak with open eyes and an unguarded heart is to step into the story of Homo amor and to incarnate your true identity as a unique configuration of ErosValue. It is to know that you are a unique configuration of intimacy and desire that Reality has never seen before. This book is a map, a prayer, a transmission. It is a call to become an embodiment of the genuine Eros Value of Homo amor.Democracy is a monumental achievement in the evolution of consciousness. It is in this time between worlds and time between stories that evolutionary achievement is challenged to evolve once more—for today, democracy is broken in a number of key ways. 1) Many of the key issues of the day are not being voted on. 2) When we do vote on key issues, they are often too complex for anyone other than the most proficient experts to understand and form a position. 3) Moreover, we are voting within the context of nation states, but the real issues are global. 4) To make matters worse, it is simply true that elections can be and are statistically swung via manipulation by social media. 5) More fundamentally even, the current win-lose structure of democracy undermines democracy itself. 6) Finally, democracy disenfranchises all those who supported the loser in an election, even if that loser wins just a fraction less of the vote than the winner. The next stage of democracy is what we are calling synergistic democracy. Synergistic democracy is rooted in a politics of Evolutionary Love, which generates a planetary awakening in love through Unique Self Symphonies. Synergistic democracy is about how we create a shared field of value based on a universal grammar of evolving value. To have a real democracy, we need a shared sense of sense-making, which in turn requires a shared grammar of value that allows for shared evaluation. For the next stage of democracy, we need a shared Story of Value, rooted in First Principles and First Values. In a synergistic democracy, conversations take place in which no one is excluded from the circle. The insights of the various factions are traced to their deep root in a shared field of value. Synergy between competing perspectives of value becomes the order of the polis, instead of domination through narrowly-won elections. It is not that voting is necessarily excluded, but rather that the voting takes places at the apex of a process of education and perspective sharing, in which there is a deep sense of the inherent value held by each of the perspectives, maximal synergies have been achieved and the remainder is subject to voting, perhaps by each citizen or by elected representatives of citizen blocs who hold profound depth and visionary capacity in regard to the issues at hand.

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