Where I write up some small ideas that I've been happening that may eventually become their own top level posts. I'll start populating with a few ideas I've posted up as twitter/Facebook thoughts.
I mean, this is a weird way to put it, but kinda.
At Kegan 3 the ground truth is taken for granted, and is heavily constructed via social reality. You can have a traditional society that isn't trying to do anything other than maintain the existing reality that works for people at this stage of development.
On the other hand, modern civilization (as in, modern industrial civilization with loose family ties and trusting strangers and impersonal organizations that function like machinery) basically demands people at least come up to Kegan 4 to really succeed, and historically put lots of systems in place to help people get there. It does end up asking people to try their best and fake it until they actually develop, with people playing at Kegan 4 without actually being there.
A classic example I can think of is the way modern society, and especially modern organizations, expect people to function in compartmentalized ways. Like, say you work at a company, and you, Alice, have beef with your coworker, Bob. The expectation is that you'll act "professionally", which is essentially the LARPing thing you're getting at, where there are rules around how you are supposed to behave in the workplace, and one of those is engaging with people in the workplace only on limited terms. The whole person doesn't come to work, only their work "mask". So your beef with Bob must be kept out of the workplace, lest you be fired yourself, and Bob can readily get himself out of trouble if you break the rules and bring the beef to work by saying "hey, Alice isn't acting professionally!".
I feel like I only wrote half that comment. Here's the rest.
That kind of compartmentalization is not something that comes naturally to people without systems in place to push them to it. In a traditional society, there's just sort of one social sphere (attempts at secret groups for ritual purposes notwithstanding) that overlaps with everything and you can bring your whole self all the time everywhere and people will expect you to do that. It's only that we ask more of people in our modern world because compartmentalization works well as a bridge to help pe... (read more)
Where I write up some small ideas that I've been happening that may eventually become their own top level posts. I'll start populating with a few ideas I've posted up as twitter/Facebook thoughts.