July 10 2021 SDI The Aftermath of Modernity: How Did We Get Here, Anyway? with Karen Voorhees

The Aftermath of Modernity: How Did We Get Here, Anyway? with Karen Voorhees
In only a few short centuries, a handful of small nation-states sailed forth across the oceans and colonized much of the rest of the world. Western Europe had gone very suddenly from barbarian backwater to global superpower and the “modern” era had begun. Some of the results face us today as our most intractable problems.
This presentation will be an Integral overview of Europe’s emergence into modernity. It’s more than just fascinating history - the better we understand how it happened, the better our odds of finding sustainable solutions to the problems of today.
Ken Wilber’s AQAL meta-model gives us (among so much else) a powerful tool with which to understand our collective history. But how can we apply a developmental model to the history of human societies while doing justice to pre-modern cultures, especially to those that have survived to the present? Faced with such urgent issues as de-colonization and racial justice along with climate change, we need some careful discernment. Can we preserve the positive aspects of modernity (such as greatly lengthened life spans) while finding solutions to the wicked problems that the dark side of modernity has bequeathed us?
The first hour will be a short presentation of Wilber’s developmental model as applied to the history of our human societies, followed by break-out discussion groups and then a group Q&A / discussion.
The second hour’s presentation will focus on the European Renaissance and the emergence of modernity. Why did this emergence happen? Why in Europe and not in China or the Islamic world? Again, the presentation will be followed by break-out discussion groups and then a group Q&A / discussion.The Aftermath of Modernity: How Did We Get Here, Anyway? with Karen Voorhees
In only a few short centuries, a handful of small nation-states sailed forth across the oceans and colonized much of the rest of the world. Western Europe had gone very suddenly from barbarian backwater to global superpower and the “modern” era had begun. Some of the results face us today as our most intractable problems.
This presentation will be an Integral overview of Europe’s emergence into modernity. It’s more than just fascinating history - the better we understand how it happened, the better our odds of finding sustainable solutions to the problems of today.
Ken Wilber’s AQAL meta-model gives us (among so much else) a powerful tool with which to understand our collective history. But how can we apply a developmental model to the history of human societies while doing justice to pre-modern cultures, especially to those that have survived to the present? Faced with such urgent issues as de-colonization and racial justice along with climate change, we need some careful discernment. Can we preserve the positive aspects of modernity (such as greatly lengthened life spans) while finding solutions to the wicked problems that the dark side of modernity has bequeathed us?
The first hour will be a short presentation of Wilber’s developmental model as applied to the history of our human societies, followed by break-out discussion groups and then a group Q&A / discussion.
The second hour’s presentation will focus on the European Renaissance and the emergence of modernity. Why did this emergence happen? Why in Europe and not in China or the Islamic world? Again, the presentation will be followed by break-out discussion groups and then a group Q&A / discussion.

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