The Ethics And Relationships Between Individuals and Groups 🍱

 (this post can be read as one of three parts. Read the whole thing here)

Third Frame: We can see Relateful flow practice as an exploration of the relationships between individuals and collectives. I think this is especially interesting in ethics: How do collectives take responsibility for our collective impacts, when it's not the responsibility of any particular individual? Or is that ever the case? There are a lot of wise philosophical and political perspectives on this.

Ken Wilber's twenty(ish) tenets of evolutionary systems—which address holons and their properties—are especially pertinent, but how do we use this knowledge? How do we embody it? When we're in a dilemma, with people, what do we do? We’re struggling these days with our extra potency (eg: Nukes), so I think there are extra questions to ask. For example, I started looking at the AI alignment question less technically (How do we get this technology to do what we want?) and more interpersonally: How do we align our civilization, when we're already largely optimizing for what's most expedient, rather than most helpful?

With love, Jordan