Brace yourself for a huge blast of illumination coming from our Jewish Space Lasers. ⚡ Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon look at: * DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in Society vs Organizations * Albert Murray's Omni-American (via Greg Thomas) * what a minimally decent life looks like and working towards that for all Americans * revising how racism is taught in US History * the development of Kegan's Self-Authoring stage as a solution to mob violence and polarization * The Nordic Secret by Lene Rachel Andersen and Tomas Björkman 0:00 Amiel Handelsman and Marshall Æon 0:33 How are the Jewish Space Lasers doing? 1:40 The challenges with current approaches to antiracism 4:46 How to understand racial disparities in organizations 6:13 Overlap between societal and organizational DEI 9:08 Healthy DEI vs Unhealthy DEI vs Unhealthy attacks on DEI 10:56 What is the cause of the latest wave of rigid ideological DEI? 11:32 Blame Millenials ;) 12:48 Comparisons to China's Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong 14:26 DEI is actually Amber/Blue with Green values 16:39 Kegan framework - being centered in the socialized mind 18:29 Getting precise about Marxism and its influence on contemporary DEI 18:57 Mythic architecture of Marxism: Master and Slave of the Hegelian dialectic 20:25 The inversion of hierarchies 21:00 Ibram X. Kendi - The answer to past discrimination is present discrimination 21:31 The Minimally-Decent Life 23:24 Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Race 26:06 How do we guarantee love for everyone? 26:23 The complexity of disparities in outcomes between demographic groups 26:35 Prenatal nutrition and prenatal care 27:40 Biden administration's Child Tax Credit removed 1/3 of kids from poverty 28:24 Marxists reject the racial lens because they see it undermining class solidarity 30:07 Touré Reed, son of Adolph Reed Jr, wrote a book critiquing Barack Obama and Ta Nehisi Coates 31:16 Colorblind Racism 31:28 Progress denialism about the Civil Rights Movement starting with Derrick Bell and Kimberlé Crenshaw 33:45 Isabel Wilkerson's Caste 34:36 Timothy Synder, historian at Yale, and the politics of eternity 35:38 Reframing American history: The 1619 Project, the 13th Amendment, Rockefeller drug laws 36:43 A balanced look at the 1619 Project 40:50 Deracialization and the Omni-American project 42:09 Greg Thomas, Albert Murray 43:10 Black and white culture intermingling as seen in Jazz 46:43 Albert Murray on the composite of American culture 48:09 Miscegenation 50:51 Historically, some "white" people weren't considered "white" 51:10 Are Ashkenazi Jews white? 52:34 Etiology of Oppression 53:39 Antisemitism is punching up 55:55 Stalin's controlled opposition 56:47 Disproportionate representation of Jews in Hollywood 59:13 The Hero's Journey - Reframing that the story of history is not a story of oppression (while acknowledging brutality and dehumanization) 1:05:07 Howard Gardner's counter-stories 1:07:34 The unschooled mind 1:08:16 Mob-proofing the citizenry • January 6 • Lene Rachel Andersen • The Nordic Secret 1:10:24 Self Authoring vs Socialized minds vs Imperial (Self Sovereign) minds 1:16:00 Bildung - the Nordic education system's focus on individual development 1:17:44 Conspiracy theorists think the powers that be don't want us to evolve 1:21:31 Timothy Snyder's work combatting Russian propaganda is supporting self-authorship