I finished reading what is for me a landmark essay in my own intellectual development, because it brings me back to rethinking the founding moment of the P2P Foundation in 2005 as a 'left integralist' movement. We attempted to be a collective organic intellectual for a self-reflexive and class conscious commons movement. But the integral movement itself went into a a-political, largely soft-spiritual orientation, while the commons movement significantly fell prey to the post-Floyd moral panic. As the P2P Foundation network 'froze' and enough commoners followed the left in a path of identitarian suicide, I hung on to what I considered a healthy, pragmatic, egalitarian and regenerative pocket that combined hands on work with 'productive communities' and web3 coordination tools. In the meantime, I continued my research, intensely looking at the body of work of macrohistorians. My own cancellation in 2018 also led to the realization that far from being as integrative as I would like to be, I had ignored and rejected even paying attention to the other side of the political spectrum. Given the nastyness of the identitarian left, even merely thinking forces on the center and right of the spectrum had a certain attractivitey, and at least my curiousity was aroused. But as time went on, it was clear that for most of them, their committment to free speech and pluralism was not genuine, and that there are many on that other side of the spectrum that are as eager to support various forms of domination and suppression as their identitarian enemies. And as for the integral movement, what Erik Haines calls the Romantic-Industrial Complex (Rebel Wisdom, Perpspectiva, the little corner of the Internet,etc ..). I continued following them with great interest. I have a genuine interest in spiritual reflexion and practice, BUT, I also keenly felt that none of these forces were tackling even remotely the political-economy sides of things. These are means of coping with disaster, not actively engaging with it. And so this is where Erik Haines comes in. With a similar genealogical background in integral theory, he seems to have pursued their emancipatory lineage, rather than their coping lineage. It's a portal for me to re-engage with this important part of my own intellectual and activist history. He also forces me to confront the demands of the post-metaphysical turn more 'head-on': * On Enchanted Flatland: Iain McGilchrist & the Problem of Romantic Liberalism erikhaines.org/p/on-enchante…