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452. Ken Wilber

Buddha at the Gas Pump

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The Importance of Cleaning Up Your Shadows

If we don't clear that up, we're never going to clear up all the disasters of global capitalism and crony capitalism. It's from the higher stages of growing up that you get things like wishing to stop oppression and make diversity an important thing. Those values don't come from the lower four or five stages of development. They emerge until age six or seven - so if you don't have growing up, you can just forget wanting inclusivity and lack of oppressions. That's why it's only a higher stage. We are taking approaches that are extremely important but we're fragmenting them off during them one at a time and it doesn't work.

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