The Great Stage-Theory Debate - “Colonial BS” or “True and Humane”?
Is developmental theory valid? Is it even moral? This is the gauntlet laid down by author Nora Bateson in a cheeky tweet that launched a thousand comments: Stage theory… Is BS. Always was. And it is colonial as hell. Sorry, but that has got to go.
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Show Notes
Is developmental theory valid? Is it even moral? This is the gauntlet laid down by author Nora Bateson in a cheeky tweet that launched a thousand comments:
Stage theory…
Is BS.
Always was.
And it is colonial as hell.Sorry, but that has got to go.
— nora bateson (@NoraBateson) August 10, 2021
In a high-profile response to her social media posts, author Hanzi Freinacht shared a short essay defending stage theory as being both true and beneficial to society.
The result has been an online controversy that has generated both heat and light in the Integral / Spiral Dynamics world. In this episode, I offer a shamelessly integral analysis of the ideas in contention, and how the conflict itself is contributing to the evolution of evolutionary thought.
Let me know what you think at [email protected]. And here’s more about Nora Bateson and Hanzi Freinacht.