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