Trump and a Post-Truth World; An Evolutionary Self-Correction by Ken Wilber Brexit and Trump were good and necessary things. This is the conclusion that very liberal and progressive Ken Wilber comes to by viewing events through a lens of cultural evolution and Integral Theory. According to Wilber, the alternatives to Brexit and Trump would have been pathologically worse as they would have represented an example of cultural evolution attempting to press forward in a direction that had failed and could only have resulted in more carnage and suffering. I first came to this realisation in approximately June 2016, although being unable to articulate it in such terms at the time it was more of a visceral intuition. The intervening 12 months has resulted in a deep-dive into these areas and the realisation that our culture had reached the equivalent of a local maxima, but hampered by lies or untruths that altered the cultural ecosystem to an extent that we were threatened with being stuck on that local maxima and at serious risk of decline if not worse. Only by conducting a sudden, traumatic, and chaotic search for new models and new worldviews could we hope to migrate to a fitter, higher, maxima on the cultural evolutionary fitness landscape. And the first step of course was to go back to foundational basics. This is why I posted in January 2017 that the year of 2016 was a great year. Consideration of these major societal issues in such a way demands that a great many things - actors, forces, trends, ideologies, events - are considered together. With many people I’ve discussed these cultural and political issues with there has been an explanatory gap, like we’re talking a different language or rather relying on or assuming the integration of so many disparate factors that one party lacks the framework necessary to even discuss these different worldviews. Almost like the concept of Future Shock levels and trying to explain high level scenarios to those who haven’t en...