My comment in regard to this article by Chris Hedges published June 30, 2009 (my comment published today, July 7):
It needs more editing and refinement and work, but here's the rough draft:
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"How Right You Are, Mostly"
The emergence of the value of diversity, equal rights for minorities (including the LGBT community), and women, pluralism, and revival of roots and true history that happened as the postmodern wave emerged in the 60s and 70s, the wave ushering in the worldcentric stage, was built on the necessary homogenization and nation-centric awareness of the melting pot transforming from the ethnocentrism of the 19th century, and eariler.
The fact that the neoconservatives did not allow this natural evolution to exist in anything but starved-for-air underground venues and actively fought to react AGAINST the postmodern wave has brought us to this point when we should be quite green and postmodern in the developed countries and moving into the Integral planet-centric phase. This, as I said, was blocked, imo, by Rove, Norquist, and the corporatists who did not want to give up their old melting-pot elitist plutocratic power, excess wealth, and advantages, who had not transformed their consciousness upward and outward.
The marriage of reason and emotion is feeling-attention, (Da) aka vision-logic (Wilber), a higher faculty of consciousness promoting compassionate interdependent awareness and wise action.
