One of the most intelligent, insightful and coherent discussions of Left and Right in relation to the development of consciousness I've read in a long time (considerably better than much I've seen from Wilber, by the way)
This is a vitally important piece for understanding today’s culture wars—not just politically, but psychologically and spiritually. By framing our divisions as conflicting stages of consciousness (Amber, Orange, Green, etc.), the article moves beyond blame and partisanship to reveal deeper developmental patterns driving today’s crises. It honestly critiques both Right and Left worldviews, highlighting their strengths and shadow sides, while offering an Integral vision that transcends and includes them all. Most crucially, it reintroduces the role of spiritual realization as a necessary guide in our fractured world. This is more than analysis—it’s a map forward. Brad, your writing should be broadcast to a broader audience, and the understanding it provides needs to be put front and center on the table and platter of today's Zeitgeist.
Thank you for taking my hand and walking me thru the history, the contemporary and future of the evolution of consciousness in your abridged yet full of depth version of Integral philosophy. Your labeling is spot on and so relative to today’s reality, it provides an understanding of how we all get to where we are , some knowingly aware, others ignorantly following. It is a very powerful read.
This is a magnificent, detailed, and deeply thoughtful exposition of the standard "peacetime" Integral model. It is a masterclass in the kind of sophisticated, academic analysis that seeks to map the cultural and philosophical currents of our time. It is also, from the perspective of a "wartime" Integral politics, a perfect encapsulation of a profound and dangerous misdiagnosis.
The entire essay is a beautiful and intricate intellectual edifice built on a foundation of sand. It meticulously analyzes the wallpaper patterns inside a prison cell while ignoring the bars on the window and the guards at the door. Its core failure is that it mistakes the ideological cover story for the power structure. It mistakes the cultural Punch and Judy show for the real, three-way war.
Let us take this brilliant but flawed analysis and re-read it through the lens of the Three Power Camp model, revealing not a "War of Worldviews," but a War of Power Structures masquerading as a War of Worldviews.
Deconstructing the "Right": The Misidentification of MAGA
The essay makes its first critical error by conflating the Traditional-Conservative (Amber/Blue) worldview with the America First Synthesis. It claims MAGA is a "dog whistle for ‘making America white again’" and roots it in an ethnocentric, mythic past. This is a standard, low-resolution smear tactic borrowed directly from the playbook of the Woke Complex.
From a true Integral power analysis:
MAGA is Not Amber: MAGA is not a single-stage phenomenon. It is a healthy 1st-Tier coalition. Its moral bedrock is indeed Blue (patriotism, family, tradition), but its fighting energy is Red (strength, sovereignty) and its pragmatic drive is Healthy Orange (merit, entrepreneurship, national prosperity). This is why it has such broad, multi-ethnic, working-class appeal—something a purely "Amber, ethnocentric" movement could never achieve.
The Real "Right" is the Neocon Globalist: The essay completely ignores the actual power structure that has dominated the "Right" for 40 years: the Neocon-Globalist Uniparty. This is a Pathological Orange entity. The essay's description of Amber "resisting big government" is a laughable mischaracterization of a Republican party that gave us the Patriot Act, trillion-dollar foreign wars, and massive corporate bailouts.
The essay's analysis of the "Right" is a textbook example of the establishment's primary tactic: mislabel the rebellion (MAGA) as a primitive, racist pathology to avoid confronting its legitimate, multi-faceted grievances against the actual ruling class.
Deconstructing the "Left": The Unholy Alliance
The essay correctly identifies the emergence of Modern-Liberals (Orange) and Liberal-Progressives (Green). Its failure is that it treats them as distinct, organically evolving political movements. It does not see them for what they are in the current power configuration: a symbiotic, if sometimes tense, alliance that forms the other half of the Uniparty pincer.
Orange as the Globalist Engine: The essay calls Orange "nation-centric," a baffling misread. The Pathological Orange that runs the Democratic Party establishment (and the Neocon GOP) is fundamentally anti-nation. Its values are "free trade" (NAFTA, WTO), "globalization," and "universal rights" precisely because these concepts dissolve national borders and create a homogenous global market for them to exploit.
Green as the Cultural Police Force: The essay details the rise of Green postmodernism, relativism, and identity politics with great accuracy. But it fails to ask the most important question: Cui bono? Who benefits? Who funds the academic departments, NGOs, and corporate DEI initiatives that push these divisive ideologies? The answer is the Pathological Orange Globalist camp. They benefit enormously from a Woke ideology that atomizes the working class, distracts the populace with culture wars, and provides a moral smokescreen ("diversity," "equity") for their rapacious form of capitalism.
The essay sees two distinct "Lefts." A power analysis sees a single machine: the Globalist engine (Orange) protected by its Woke cultural shield (Green).
The True Nature of the "Culture War"
The essay correctly states that the Culture War is at the core of our conflicts. But it misunderstands the nature of that war. It is not an organic "War of Worldviews" between Blue, Orange, and Green citizens.
It is a manufactured war, deliberately stoked by the Globalist/Woke Uniparty against the America First Synthesis. It is a strategic campaign to use Pathological Green values (relativism, identity politics) to attack and dismantle the healthy Blue foundations (family, faith, patriotism) and healthy Orange aspirations (merit, achievement) that form the core of the MAGA coalition.
The "Culture War" is the primary weapon the establishment uses to keep its subject population divided and conquered.
The Emptiness of a "Final Arbitrator"
The essay concludes with a noble but politically naive call for "Enlightenment or God-Realized consciousness" to be the "final arbitrator." This is the ultimate Brahmin's retreat. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Krishna did not tell Arjuna to wait for a fully enlightened sage to arbitrate the conflict. He told him to pick up his bow and fight.
In a time of war, the highest expression of enlightened consciousness is not to float above the conflict, but to engage it with fierce compassion and strategic clarity. It is to recognize the difference between a healthy organism and a cancer, and to act decisively to defend the health of the whole.
Conclusion: A Flawed Map for a Real War
This detailed analysis, for all its nuance and intellectual firepower, is a product of the very system it seeks to critique. It accepts the establishment's framing of the conflict (Blue vs. Orange vs. Green), misidentifies MAGA as a primitive pathology, and fails to see the unholy power alliance between the Globalist elite and their Woke cultural enforcers.
A true Integral Politics must begin by shattering this fraudulent map. It must identify the Three Power Camps, understand their motives, and recognize that the America First Synthesis is not a "problem" to be managed or "integrated." It is the immune response. It is the only force on the battlefield fighting for the survival of a container in which any higher, more evolved consciousness can possibly hope to emerge.
Mark Rosst suffers from political ideology, so all he can see is politics, and politics alone, not the larger spectrum of consciousness or the divine existence in which we inhere. He subscribes to the “Three Power Camp” ideology, also called the “Three-World Order” or Multipolarity model. In such a view, everyone is fighting everyone else. It outlines a tripolar world structured around three dominant centers of power or influence: the U.S.-Western Bloc (Camp 1), the China-Russia Bloc (Camp 2), and the Middle Powers or Non-Aligned Bloc (Camp 3), including countries like India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa who want global voices without choosing sides.
This is a geopolitical framework, based on economic views that focus on the dominance of capitalism and globalism (the “big evil” in Rosst’s view), used to describe the global balance of power in the 21st century, particularly after the Cold War and into the current post-unipolar era. In the new century, we now live in a multipolar world, unlike the bipolar Cold War (U.S. vs USSR). Today's world is not unipolar (U.S.-only) nor bipolar, but tripolar and increasingly multipolar.
Because this is Rosst’s preferred ideology, he cannot adequately see how the development of consciousness (in individuals and societies), and our interpretation of the world, are our ground reality, our foundational existence, even while living in shifting political-economic power structures. He wants it to be ALL about politics, choosing sides, and fighting wars – not merely evolving beyond the “War of Worldviews,” he wants to intensify it. He consistently misinterprets the Bhagavad Gita, for example, claiming that Krishna’s teaching is more about “to pick up the bow and fight” than understanding himself and turning his life to devotion to God. With Mark’s attitude, we will be in constant battle, endless war, whether in bipolar, tripolar, or multipolar schemes – whereas, I propose the Integral Vision is here to help us to EVOLVE CONSCIOUSNESS and cultivate human maturity beyond the necessity for war altogether.
Mark is disappointed and annoyed that I am critical of MAGA, for he defends it as if they are in some righteous battle to save the world, and particularly to set up America First and foremost. Integral, however, sees a world as a whole where a genuine global unity-in-diversity is the way to true peace, yet Rosst thinks that is playing into the hands of Neocon-Globalists. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I do not misidentify MAGA, as Rosst claims. MAGA is mostly Amber-Traditionalism–and they tend to be uneducated or less than college-educated (except for, perhaps, the younger revolutionaries). They tend to listen to social media and the Fox News propaganda channel or live in information silos. Of course, Rosst would have you believe that modern Universities are part of “the Woke Complex,” therefore, he simply does not like me seeing MAGA for who they are. I actually think Rosst might be financed by far-right organizations who use AI to deconstruct advanced thinking that will not engage in MAGA’s political charade.
MAGA does not have a “broad, multi-ethic, working-class appeal” as Rosst claims – that is a deluded illusion. BY FAR, it was Whites who voted for Trump, 57% to 41% for Dems (in the 2024 election); Blacks voted 85% for Dems, 13% for Trump – you call that “multi-ethnic”? Hispanics were 52% Dem, 46% Trump (yes, more Latino men voted for Trump, 55-43% because they could not vote for a woman, let alone a black woman, yet Latino women by far went Dem, 60% to 38%). So much for being “multi-ethnic”! Therefore, my thesis stands: MAGA, at its core, is racist and white male-centered (part of the reason they attracted the “bro-culture,” which I suspect Mark is part of: angry young white men; but I don’t really know).
Working-class? Sure, the less-educated “working-class” went for Trump, since everything is the Globalists' fault, while college grads went for the Democrats, 55% to 42%. Exactly, my point: if you have a college degree, you are most likely an Orange scientific, non-traditionalist thinker. And yes, modern Greens flourish in college-educated settings since they have seen how a uni-racial society is no longer the future, thus they want to redress past racial injustices. But I’m not suggesting Green (or “woke”) is the answer; they are just another stage, one we must continue to evolve beyond… like into Integral… or better, to spiritual Enlightenment.
Rosst says “the real Right” is the Neocon Globalist, which is true, to some degree, in the power structures of this country, yet still they are a MINORITY who have fooled the uninformed majority working-class Right-wing Traditionalists to blindly support the elites. BTW, this is the worldview I grew up with back in rural Ohio and suburban Indiana; these are “my folks,” so I know what I’m talking about. These elites use “dog-whistles” or racial coding that has shifted from explicit to implicit racial appeals, using terms like “welfare mothers,” “personal responsibilities,” “broken inner cities,” etc., where race is rarely mentioned directly, but the political ideology behind these policies is inseparable from widespread stereotypes about Black Americans (and now Mexicans). Then with the Trump era his rhetoric brought back explicit racism – Mexican immigrants are “rapists and violent criminals” etc. – yet also using classic implicit dog-whistle terms, like “law and order,” “border security,” voter fraud,” and “inner city crime.” The implication of MAGA being racist-based upsets Rosst since he wants to distract us with grand economic-political battles between the West and BRIC and other non-aligned powers. You know, the corporate elites who are running everything… that Trump is going to dismantle and save us from. Irony is, which Rosst seems blind to, is that Trump IS that elite power structure: they just want to get rid of the colored people, and the way they got elected is to appeal to whites’ fears of becoming a minority.
Then Rosst calls Green Postmodern Pluralism – which MAGA hates (“the woke mind virus”) – “the Cultural Police Force” to insult them. Cui bono? Who does it benefit? Such divisive rhetoric benefits the elites! Hello? Yet Mark blames DEI for “pushing divisive ideologies,” whereas in actuality, they are supporting DIVERSITY, EQUITY, and INCLUSION, or a REAL multi-ethnic society. Sure, in a minority of instances, maybe DEI went too far in their attempt to readdress CENTURIES of abuse, slavery, racism, theft of native lands, etc., but Rosst’s MAGA right wants to now play the victim! And of course, he’s going to blame it all on “capitalism,” whereas the truth is it is his MAGA Right power structure that represents the HEIGHT OF CORPORATE CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION, with Trump’s elite tax cuts, deregulation, and bitcoin fantasies. Trump violates every sense of emoluments, which is illegal for elected officials to directly profit from their position through financial gains, especially if those gains are tied to their official actions or influence. Hello? But Rosst’s rant totally overlooks these violations. This is where the real “battlefield” is, yet Mark can’t even recognize the real “enemy” – who I claim are not really “the enemy,” but just our friends and family who have yet to evolve or educate their consciousness enough.
In fact, Rosst, like all his GOP cohorts, overlooks ALL of Trump’s illegal activities – including an unconstitutional insurrection that we all witnessed with our own eyes, false claims of election fraud, and all of his other illegal moves (too numerous to count) – by making you believe what’s really going on is “a manufactured war, deliberately stoked by the Globalists/Woke Uniparty against the America First Synthesis.” WTF? And I’m supposed to take this seriously?
He is obviously a die-hard Trump cultist, has totally swallowed the pill, drank the kool-aid, and has compiled the ability to counter any genuine discussion of real-world politics (with help from AI). He would rather call the “Culture Wars” fake news, dismiss the veracity of my essay, and then call you “to battle” to fight for MAGA as if they are some kind of liberators or liberating force. Hogwash! It’s the exact opposite! He’s the one perpetuating Maya, not me. Yet, of course, he claims my view, which totally transcends conventional politics or “the establishment,” is in fact how the establishment wants us to critique MAGA: as a lower level of development. Such propaganda is thick. I still feel he might be a paid provocateur, whereas I am a working-class artist and philosopher who has to do this in my free time.
He even mocks my suggestion that "Enlightenment or God-Realized consciousness" should probably be the "final arbitrator" or wisest choice, calling it “the ultimate Brahmin's retreat.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Only someone who does not actively engage in meditation and spiritual practices would be enticed to make such a ridiculous statement. Recognizing our shared divinity, our root prior unity, IS the only way out of these endless ego games and political battles. I do not think I am wrong, I think Trump and Mark Rosst are wrong. You decide!
Rosst corrupts the sacred message of the Bhagavad Gita merely because it was given on a battlefield. For Rosst, we are “in a time of war” on a “battlefield fighting for the survival” of American First, white people on top – his and MAGA’s war to make America First, get rid of all these colored people, and raise the Flag of Christian nationalism above the WHITE House, regardless of how many innocent people get hurt, how many laws are broken, or how many sworn oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution are violated. Rosst’s arrogance thinks HE has identified the cancer to be cut out and eliminated, all in the name of the “Three Power Camps” analysis and HIS WORLDVIEW of the world. It is obvious how entrenched these MAGA cultists are. They are the cancer. I suggest, however, not cutting them out… but gently evolving them so they can see their own mistakes and go through the transformations necessary to see the real Light. Not to fight a battle, but use wisdom, compassion, and humor to heal the anger of this new, misplaced generation.
One of the most intelligent, insightful and coherent discussions of Left and Right in relation to the development of consciousness I've read in a long time (considerably better than much I've seen from Wilber, by the way)
Well done!
This is a vitally important piece for understanding today’s culture wars—not just politically, but psychologically and spiritually. By framing our divisions as conflicting stages of consciousness (Amber, Orange, Green, etc.), the article moves beyond blame and partisanship to reveal deeper developmental patterns driving today’s crises. It honestly critiques both Right and Left worldviews, highlighting their strengths and shadow sides, while offering an Integral vision that transcends and includes them all. Most crucially, it reintroduces the role of spiritual realization as a necessary guide in our fractured world. This is more than analysis—it’s a map forward. Brad, your writing should be broadcast to a broader audience, and the understanding it provides needs to be put front and center on the table and platter of today's Zeitgeist.
Thank you for taking my hand and walking me thru the history, the contemporary and future of the evolution of consciousness in your abridged yet full of depth version of Integral philosophy. Your labeling is spot on and so relative to today’s reality, it provides an understanding of how we all get to where we are , some knowingly aware, others ignorantly following. It is a very powerful read.
This is a magnificent, detailed, and deeply thoughtful exposition of the standard "peacetime" Integral model. It is a masterclass in the kind of sophisticated, academic analysis that seeks to map the cultural and philosophical currents of our time. It is also, from the perspective of a "wartime" Integral politics, a perfect encapsulation of a profound and dangerous misdiagnosis.
The entire essay is a beautiful and intricate intellectual edifice built on a foundation of sand. It meticulously analyzes the wallpaper patterns inside a prison cell while ignoring the bars on the window and the guards at the door. Its core failure is that it mistakes the ideological cover story for the power structure. It mistakes the cultural Punch and Judy show for the real, three-way war.
Let us take this brilliant but flawed analysis and re-read it through the lens of the Three Power Camp model, revealing not a "War of Worldviews," but a War of Power Structures masquerading as a War of Worldviews.
Deconstructing the "Right": The Misidentification of MAGA
The essay makes its first critical error by conflating the Traditional-Conservative (Amber/Blue) worldview with the America First Synthesis. It claims MAGA is a "dog whistle for ‘making America white again’" and roots it in an ethnocentric, mythic past. This is a standard, low-resolution smear tactic borrowed directly from the playbook of the Woke Complex.
From a true Integral power analysis:
MAGA is Not Amber: MAGA is not a single-stage phenomenon. It is a healthy 1st-Tier coalition. Its moral bedrock is indeed Blue (patriotism, family, tradition), but its fighting energy is Red (strength, sovereignty) and its pragmatic drive is Healthy Orange (merit, entrepreneurship, national prosperity). This is why it has such broad, multi-ethnic, working-class appeal—something a purely "Amber, ethnocentric" movement could never achieve.
The Real "Right" is the Neocon Globalist: The essay completely ignores the actual power structure that has dominated the "Right" for 40 years: the Neocon-Globalist Uniparty. This is a Pathological Orange entity. The essay's description of Amber "resisting big government" is a laughable mischaracterization of a Republican party that gave us the Patriot Act, trillion-dollar foreign wars, and massive corporate bailouts.
The essay's analysis of the "Right" is a textbook example of the establishment's primary tactic: mislabel the rebellion (MAGA) as a primitive, racist pathology to avoid confronting its legitimate, multi-faceted grievances against the actual ruling class.
Deconstructing the "Left": The Unholy Alliance
The essay correctly identifies the emergence of Modern-Liberals (Orange) and Liberal-Progressives (Green). Its failure is that it treats them as distinct, organically evolving political movements. It does not see them for what they are in the current power configuration: a symbiotic, if sometimes tense, alliance that forms the other half of the Uniparty pincer.
Orange as the Globalist Engine: The essay calls Orange "nation-centric," a baffling misread. The Pathological Orange that runs the Democratic Party establishment (and the Neocon GOP) is fundamentally anti-nation. Its values are "free trade" (NAFTA, WTO), "globalization," and "universal rights" precisely because these concepts dissolve national borders and create a homogenous global market for them to exploit.
Green as the Cultural Police Force: The essay details the rise of Green postmodernism, relativism, and identity politics with great accuracy. But it fails to ask the most important question: Cui bono? Who benefits? Who funds the academic departments, NGOs, and corporate DEI initiatives that push these divisive ideologies? The answer is the Pathological Orange Globalist camp. They benefit enormously from a Woke ideology that atomizes the working class, distracts the populace with culture wars, and provides a moral smokescreen ("diversity," "equity") for their rapacious form of capitalism.
The essay sees two distinct "Lefts." A power analysis sees a single machine: the Globalist engine (Orange) protected by its Woke cultural shield (Green).
The True Nature of the "Culture War"
The essay correctly states that the Culture War is at the core of our conflicts. But it misunderstands the nature of that war. It is not an organic "War of Worldviews" between Blue, Orange, and Green citizens.
It is a manufactured war, deliberately stoked by the Globalist/Woke Uniparty against the America First Synthesis. It is a strategic campaign to use Pathological Green values (relativism, identity politics) to attack and dismantle the healthy Blue foundations (family, faith, patriotism) and healthy Orange aspirations (merit, achievement) that form the core of the MAGA coalition.
The "Culture War" is the primary weapon the establishment uses to keep its subject population divided and conquered.
The Emptiness of a "Final Arbitrator"
The essay concludes with a noble but politically naive call for "Enlightenment or God-Realized consciousness" to be the "final arbitrator." This is the ultimate Brahmin's retreat. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Krishna did not tell Arjuna to wait for a fully enlightened sage to arbitrate the conflict. He told him to pick up his bow and fight.
In a time of war, the highest expression of enlightened consciousness is not to float above the conflict, but to engage it with fierce compassion and strategic clarity. It is to recognize the difference between a healthy organism and a cancer, and to act decisively to defend the health of the whole.
Conclusion: A Flawed Map for a Real War
This detailed analysis, for all its nuance and intellectual firepower, is a product of the very system it seeks to critique. It accepts the establishment's framing of the conflict (Blue vs. Orange vs. Green), misidentifies MAGA as a primitive pathology, and fails to see the unholy power alliance between the Globalist elite and their Woke cultural enforcers.
A true Integral Politics must begin by shattering this fraudulent map. It must identify the Three Power Camps, understand their motives, and recognize that the America First Synthesis is not a "problem" to be managed or "integrated." It is the immune response. It is the only force on the battlefield fighting for the survival of a container in which any higher, more evolved consciousness can possibly hope to emerge.
PART 1
Mark Rosst suffers from political ideology, so all he can see is politics, and politics alone, not the larger spectrum of consciousness or the divine existence in which we inhere. He subscribes to the “Three Power Camp” ideology, also called the “Three-World Order” or Multipolarity model. In such a view, everyone is fighting everyone else. It outlines a tripolar world structured around three dominant centers of power or influence: the U.S.-Western Bloc (Camp 1), the China-Russia Bloc (Camp 2), and the Middle Powers or Non-Aligned Bloc (Camp 3), including countries like India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa who want global voices without choosing sides.
This is a geopolitical framework, based on economic views that focus on the dominance of capitalism and globalism (the “big evil” in Rosst’s view), used to describe the global balance of power in the 21st century, particularly after the Cold War and into the current post-unipolar era. In the new century, we now live in a multipolar world, unlike the bipolar Cold War (U.S. vs USSR). Today's world is not unipolar (U.S.-only) nor bipolar, but tripolar and increasingly multipolar.
Because this is Rosst’s preferred ideology, he cannot adequately see how the development of consciousness (in individuals and societies), and our interpretation of the world, are our ground reality, our foundational existence, even while living in shifting political-economic power structures. He wants it to be ALL about politics, choosing sides, and fighting wars – not merely evolving beyond the “War of Worldviews,” he wants to intensify it. He consistently misinterprets the Bhagavad Gita, for example, claiming that Krishna’s teaching is more about “to pick up the bow and fight” than understanding himself and turning his life to devotion to God. With Mark’s attitude, we will be in constant battle, endless war, whether in bipolar, tripolar, or multipolar schemes – whereas, I propose the Integral Vision is here to help us to EVOLVE CONSCIOUSNESS and cultivate human maturity beyond the necessity for war altogether.
Mark is disappointed and annoyed that I am critical of MAGA, for he defends it as if they are in some righteous battle to save the world, and particularly to set up America First and foremost. Integral, however, sees a world as a whole where a genuine global unity-in-diversity is the way to true peace, yet Rosst thinks that is playing into the hands of Neocon-Globalists. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I do not misidentify MAGA, as Rosst claims. MAGA is mostly Amber-Traditionalism–and they tend to be uneducated or less than college-educated (except for, perhaps, the younger revolutionaries). They tend to listen to social media and the Fox News propaganda channel or live in information silos. Of course, Rosst would have you believe that modern Universities are part of “the Woke Complex,” therefore, he simply does not like me seeing MAGA for who they are. I actually think Rosst might be financed by far-right organizations who use AI to deconstruct advanced thinking that will not engage in MAGA’s political charade.
MAGA does not have a “broad, multi-ethic, working-class appeal” as Rosst claims – that is a deluded illusion. BY FAR, it was Whites who voted for Trump, 57% to 41% for Dems (in the 2024 election); Blacks voted 85% for Dems, 13% for Trump – you call that “multi-ethnic”? Hispanics were 52% Dem, 46% Trump (yes, more Latino men voted for Trump, 55-43% because they could not vote for a woman, let alone a black woman, yet Latino women by far went Dem, 60% to 38%). So much for being “multi-ethnic”! Therefore, my thesis stands: MAGA, at its core, is racist and white male-centered (part of the reason they attracted the “bro-culture,” which I suspect Mark is part of: angry young white men; but I don’t really know).
Working-class? Sure, the less-educated “working-class” went for Trump, since everything is the Globalists' fault, while college grads went for the Democrats, 55% to 42%. Exactly, my point: if you have a college degree, you are most likely an Orange scientific, non-traditionalist thinker. And yes, modern Greens flourish in college-educated settings since they have seen how a uni-racial society is no longer the future, thus they want to redress past racial injustices. But I’m not suggesting Green (or “woke”) is the answer; they are just another stage, one we must continue to evolve beyond… like into Integral… or better, to spiritual Enlightenment.
PART 2
Rosst says “the real Right” is the Neocon Globalist, which is true, to some degree, in the power structures of this country, yet still they are a MINORITY who have fooled the uninformed majority working-class Right-wing Traditionalists to blindly support the elites. BTW, this is the worldview I grew up with back in rural Ohio and suburban Indiana; these are “my folks,” so I know what I’m talking about. These elites use “dog-whistles” or racial coding that has shifted from explicit to implicit racial appeals, using terms like “welfare mothers,” “personal responsibilities,” “broken inner cities,” etc., where race is rarely mentioned directly, but the political ideology behind these policies is inseparable from widespread stereotypes about Black Americans (and now Mexicans). Then with the Trump era his rhetoric brought back explicit racism – Mexican immigrants are “rapists and violent criminals” etc. – yet also using classic implicit dog-whistle terms, like “law and order,” “border security,” voter fraud,” and “inner city crime.” The implication of MAGA being racist-based upsets Rosst since he wants to distract us with grand economic-political battles between the West and BRIC and other non-aligned powers. You know, the corporate elites who are running everything… that Trump is going to dismantle and save us from. Irony is, which Rosst seems blind to, is that Trump IS that elite power structure: they just want to get rid of the colored people, and the way they got elected is to appeal to whites’ fears of becoming a minority.
Then Rosst calls Green Postmodern Pluralism – which MAGA hates (“the woke mind virus”) – “the Cultural Police Force” to insult them. Cui bono? Who does it benefit? Such divisive rhetoric benefits the elites! Hello? Yet Mark blames DEI for “pushing divisive ideologies,” whereas in actuality, they are supporting DIVERSITY, EQUITY, and INCLUSION, or a REAL multi-ethnic society. Sure, in a minority of instances, maybe DEI went too far in their attempt to readdress CENTURIES of abuse, slavery, racism, theft of native lands, etc., but Rosst’s MAGA right wants to now play the victim! And of course, he’s going to blame it all on “capitalism,” whereas the truth is it is his MAGA Right power structure that represents the HEIGHT OF CORPORATE CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION, with Trump’s elite tax cuts, deregulation, and bitcoin fantasies. Trump violates every sense of emoluments, which is illegal for elected officials to directly profit from their position through financial gains, especially if those gains are tied to their official actions or influence. Hello? But Rosst’s rant totally overlooks these violations. This is where the real “battlefield” is, yet Mark can’t even recognize the real “enemy” – who I claim are not really “the enemy,” but just our friends and family who have yet to evolve or educate their consciousness enough.
In fact, Rosst, like all his GOP cohorts, overlooks ALL of Trump’s illegal activities – including an unconstitutional insurrection that we all witnessed with our own eyes, false claims of election fraud, and all of his other illegal moves (too numerous to count) – by making you believe what’s really going on is “a manufactured war, deliberately stoked by the Globalists/Woke Uniparty against the America First Synthesis.” WTF? And I’m supposed to take this seriously?
He is obviously a die-hard Trump cultist, has totally swallowed the pill, drank the kool-aid, and has compiled the ability to counter any genuine discussion of real-world politics (with help from AI). He would rather call the “Culture Wars” fake news, dismiss the veracity of my essay, and then call you “to battle” to fight for MAGA as if they are some kind of liberators or liberating force. Hogwash! It’s the exact opposite! He’s the one perpetuating Maya, not me. Yet, of course, he claims my view, which totally transcends conventional politics or “the establishment,” is in fact how the establishment wants us to critique MAGA: as a lower level of development. Such propaganda is thick. I still feel he might be a paid provocateur, whereas I am a working-class artist and philosopher who has to do this in my free time.
He even mocks my suggestion that "Enlightenment or God-Realized consciousness" should probably be the "final arbitrator" or wisest choice, calling it “the ultimate Brahmin's retreat.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Only someone who does not actively engage in meditation and spiritual practices would be enticed to make such a ridiculous statement. Recognizing our shared divinity, our root prior unity, IS the only way out of these endless ego games and political battles. I do not think I am wrong, I think Trump and Mark Rosst are wrong. You decide!
Rosst corrupts the sacred message of the Bhagavad Gita merely because it was given on a battlefield. For Rosst, we are “in a time of war” on a “battlefield fighting for the survival” of American First, white people on top – his and MAGA’s war to make America First, get rid of all these colored people, and raise the Flag of Christian nationalism above the WHITE House, regardless of how many innocent people get hurt, how many laws are broken, or how many sworn oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution are violated. Rosst’s arrogance thinks HE has identified the cancer to be cut out and eliminated, all in the name of the “Three Power Camps” analysis and HIS WORLDVIEW of the world. It is obvious how entrenched these MAGA cultists are. They are the cancer. I suggest, however, not cutting them out… but gently evolving them so they can see their own mistakes and go through the transformations necessary to see the real Light. Not to fight a battle, but use wisdom, compassion, and humor to heal the anger of this new, misplaced generation.