Conscious Cultural Evolution with Carter Phipps
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Episode Nine: “Shaping the Future with Conscious Cultural Evolution” with Carter Phipps
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It’s time to discover conscious evolution. Carter Phipps explains how we can move forward while respecting and remembering our past. Learn why our cultural climate isn’t ready for solutions and what we can do to change that.
Duncan and Carter talk about the politics of pride and shame and our feelings of grievance and gratitude. How do these influence our path forward?
Carter suggests a way we can support depolarization on a personal level. Are you ready to find out how you can play a part in creating a better world?
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Highlights in this episode:
Learn why we must engage in the conscious evolution of ourselves, our system, and our culture.
Discover a political perspective that can help us understand our worldviews and appreciate the interdependence of views across the entire political spectrum.
Duncan and Carter talk about the politics of pride and shame. How can our feelings of grievance and gratitude help us move forward without forgetting our past?
Uncover the secrets of a culturally intelligent relationship.
Carter explains why our cultural climate doesn’t allow solutions to flourish.
Learn why there’s a tension between modernism and post-modernism and how it impacts society.
Discover how we can all move towards living in a depolarized world.
“We had this post-war era called the post-war consensus. We got a lot done as a civilization. We built a middle class in a different way. One of the most successful periods economically in history. We went to the moon, we did all this stuff, and we got along relatively well.
There were deep shadow sides. We can talk about American misbehavior, colonialism, our problems with empire. and racial issues. There are deep problems with all of that.
So a whole new generation came along and the progressive generation says, “That stuff's bad. We have to break all that, that we have to move forward.”
And okay. There’s some reason for breaking all that and moving forward, but you have to be careful when you break things, right? When you break things, it's all broken.
All those old hierarchies are blown away. All that cultural consensus is broken, it’s gone.
We are now in a completely fractured situation. So we went from more consensus, orientated, integrated situation, where there were a lot of problems, but we were able to accomplish things as a society, do things together, and agree on things, to a situation where we busted that up completely.”
About this week’s guest:
Carter Phipps is the author of Evolutionaries and co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Conscious Leadership with John Mackey and Steve McIntosh. He is co-founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution, which addresses political polarization though focusing on the cultural roots of America’s challenges. He hosts the Thinking Ahead podcast and is a former award-winning journalist who has been interviewed on BBC Radio, MSNBC, and NPR.
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What’s coming next?
Olga Liapsis-Muzzy is joining Duncan on Tuesday, 6 September.
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