Meta-Ideological Politics

Josh Leonard is Executive Director of the Institute for Cultural Evolution. In addition to Josh’s many years of thought leadership in integral theory and practice, developmental studies, and polarity theory, he brings 22 years of non-profit operational management, including 10 years of non-profit executive leadership, with the YMCA to this role.  He has put high-level organizational design into practice by implementing Robert Kegan’s Deliberately Developmental Organization model, and designing and leading the strategic planning process for the YMCA of San Francisco. He has experience leading large communication projects, website upgrades, and social media campaigns, and is skilled in communicating through “highest common denominator” values that engage and inspire a diverse audience.     In this episode of MIP, Nate, Ryan and Josh discuss the Post-progressive approach and Josh's work at ICE (Institute for Cultural Evolution), understanding worldview and value polarities, contrasting meta-ideological politics with post-progressivism, concerns with “centrism” as conventionally defined, culture war and identity, theory of change and practical implementation, horizontal vs vertical approaches to worldviews, high level conservative thinkers, Andrew Yang’s new political party, local vs national politics, what Josh would need to see from Ryan to endorse him as a post-progressive candidate, Obama vs Romney, and the primacy of community.    https://www.culturalevolution.org   https://post-progressive.org

Rich Tafel is a transformative leader in the areas of faith, politics and social impact. As the Managing Director of Raffa Social Capital Advisors he matches impact investors to vetted social ventures. Partnering with investors his team provides back office support, public policy and strategic coaching to social ventures. Rich is also the Director of the American Project a new Democracy Fund supported effort to bring together leading thinkers to imagine new solutions to America’s broken political system. The project is housed at Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Tafel is also pastor of Church of the Holy City in Washington DC, where he is launching a spiritual entrepreneur hub. Tafel is the founder of Log Cabin Republicans. Before moving to Washington DC, Tafel was Adolescent Health Director for the State of MA and served as Assistant Minister at Harvard’s Chapel. In this episode of MIP, Nate, Ryan and Rich discuss Rich's unique background in politics and social entrepreneurship, being a gay Republican, "translating" between various worldviews, communicating through various platforms, leveraging the exhausted majority, the viability of 3rd parties, Trump, nationalism, and healthy conservatism, the necessity of authenticity and its shadow, embracing our own contradictory complexity, immersing ourselves in alien worldviews, working with rivalrous coalitions, transmuting self-interest into positive social impacts, postmodern conservatism, Rich's upcoming book, and much more.

Oshan Jarow is one of the premiere ‘contemplative economists’ exploring how it is that economic systems play in in the construction of conscious experience and, vice versa, the role that consciousness might play in revamping a normative dimension to economic development. He’s the host and producer of the Musing Mind podcast where he’s conversing with economists, philosophers, and practitioners about how we might live in the 21st century. With Kasey Klimes he’s also a co-founder of The Library of Economic Possibility, where he’s researching and writing about economic possibilities for the next paradigm, with topics including a basic income, co-determination, and land value taxation.   In this episode of MIP, Nate, Ryan and Oshan discuss Oshan's unique work in bridging economics with consciousness studies, the library of economic possibility, making sense of multiple economic paradigms, a federal jobs guarantee,  UBI, negative income tax, inflation concerns, a national income tax, the role of politics in economic, the promises of a land value tax, social wealth funds and inclusive ownership, minimum wage and labor unions, and a wealth tax.

Ari was born and raised in New York. He received a BA in Political Science from Tufts University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. A serial entrepreneur, Ari now works in the education technology industry where he develops digital literacy products for hundreds of thousands of K-8 students across the country. In his spare time, he is committed to finding creative yet concrete applications for Integral Theory in politics, law, and governance.    In this episode of MIP, Nate, Ryan and Ari discus the Reconstitution project, politics as an art, the US constitution as a transformative leverage point, voting reforms, meta-ideology vs. transpartisanship, the promises and perils of deliberative democracy, the necessity of virtue, and founding a Republic of wisdom.

Jamie Joyce is the founder of the non-profit Society Library, and oversees related projects such as the Great American Debate and Internet Government. She works on crafting decision making models, building data bases that contain arguments, claims, and evidence from every point of view, and has experience writing legislation. In this episode of MIP, Ryan and Jamie discuss what the society library project is about, ideology vs worldview, interpretative wars over an ideologies meaning (i.e. CRT), translating between different ideologies to maximize understanding, emotional resonance and empathy in political sensemaking, addressing selection and availability bias, the long term vision of society library and the future of knowledge, meta-diplomacy and depolarization, the issue of competing values, Ryan’s 3 “mans” in sensemaking processes, ethical considerations in this work, tips for effective media and news consumption, divorcing opinion from identity, Ryan’s mindmap technique for dialogue, and rebuilding trust at individual and institutional levels.

J. Manuel Herrera is a trustee at the East Side Union High School district in San Jose, California, which is the largest High School district in Northern California, and has held that position since 1990. He has been deeply involved in politics and public policy his entire life. His vision involves integrating our inner spiritual realities with practical and effective forms of political engagement.    In this episode of Meta-Ideological Politics, Nate, Ryan, and Manuel discuss Manuel's personal journey of soul and politics, integrating love and power, the 3 principles of public engagement, limitations of conventional forms of activism, the 4 source codes of democracy, practical tips for engaging community, the necessity of emptiness and inner stillness, and transmuting conflict for higher purposes, and much more.

Layman Pascal is an integral philosopher, meta-ideological chad par excellence, and co-host of the Integral Stage podcast series. In this episode of meta-ideological politics, Nate, Ryan and Layman start off by diving balls deep into integral post metaphysics, religion, spirituality, and aesthetics, the ontology of systems, meta-progressivism vs post-progressivism, political sensemaking and media diversification, complexity informed conservatism, critiques of Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundations theory, integrative anti-fragility, titanium man and overcompensation, meta perspectives on conspiratorial theorizing, Layman’s ideal political candidate, Andrew Yang’s approach to politics, Ryan’s call out of Jordan Peterson, and most importantly, what it means to “change the dogs.”

In this inaugural episode, Ryan and Nate discuss what Meta-ideological politics means to them, their goals for the podcast, the emphasis on ideological integration and practical action, running for office and civic engagement, memetic infiltration and community development, as well as critiques of various meta communities and movements.