Pointing at the shift / mindset pairs / ways of being
- The below was written in 2019, when I was at Liminal Space Agency, as a sort of internal collection of things that at least somewhat mapped onto the main thing that we were on about.
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- There are lots of different ways to point at the core mindset shift we're talking about. They aren't all equivalent, because they carry different connotations or apply to different contexts or scales. Some of them might be impractical for use, because of ambiguity or other reasons.
- Humanity 2 → Humanity 3
- Coercive → Collaborative
- Entitlement → Evolutionary
- Judger → Learner
- Below the Line → Above the Line
- Fixed Mindset → Growth Mindset
- Inward Mindset → Outward Mindset
- Systematic → Meta-systematic
- Downward Spiral → Upward Spiral
- Oscillating Tension → Creative Tension
- From Robert Fritz
- Static Memes → Dynamic Memes
- (/ societies; from David Deutsch)
- Empire Era → Planetary Era
- from Robert Gilman & context.org
- Tier 1 → Tier 2
- Game A → Game B
- Finite Games → Infinite Games
- Rivalrous → Anti-rivalrous
- Scarcity Economics → Relationship Economics
- Left Hemisphere-based → Right Hemisphere-based
- Communication that Disconnects → Communication that Connects
- Fear → Love
- Modern & Postmodern → Metamodern
- Atomized Mode → Fluid Mode
- from Meaningness, from David Chapman
- ("Atomized Mode" here could also be replaced with earlier "modes of meaningness", including Systematic, Countercultural, and Subcultural)
- Stage 4 → Stage 5
- (from Robert Kegan's stages of adult development)
- Dysergy → Synergy
- from Synergetics book
- Pattern as ground → Nebulosity as ground
- Related to LSA as meta-monestary
- (Indicating, in part, pattern-from-nebulosity rather than nebulosity-from-pattern)
- And this also connects to…
- Dual → Nondual
- (i.e. transcending dualisms—neither fixating nor denying them, which are also terms from Meaningness, from David Chapman)
- Seeing in Events → Seeing in Flows
- Core idea in systems thinking, discussed in Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, among other places.
- Below the Line → Above the Line is from Laurel Mellin
- It has an interesting element of seeming to also partially be about emotional activation... might have some unique and powerful affordances thereby
- Which ones construe the present shift as 2→3?
- Humanity 1 → Humanity 2 → Humanity 3
- Tribal Era → Empire Era → Planetary Era
- ~Traditional → Systematic → Meta-systematic
- spiral dynamics doesn't have this in tiers, but has like
- {Beige & Purple} → {Red & Blue & Orange & Green} → {Yellow & Turquoise}
- Other notes on this
- Judger → Learner - (this is from Marilee Adams, apparently)
- choice map:
2 linked references
November 12th, 2025
- realized that obviously everything from Pointing at the shift / mindset pairs / ways of being belongs in the collection of views it might be worth stabilizing faith in
September 4th, 2021
16:00 - starting a kind of writing block › I feel like some of what I'm trying to say would benefit … › If I were to do this though, what would some approaches be? › A different approach would be to compare & contrast like … › eg
- (see many things listed under Pointing at the shift / mindset pairs / ways of being)