The growing globalization of the world makes it increasingly important to understand diversity.

People with varying beliefs and values can live together and work together productively,

but for this to happen it is crucial to

understand and appreciate their distinctive world views. A quote by

Ramano Prodi. Let's talk about how societies Monoprody.

Let's talk about how societies evolve, how human culture changes across time, and introduce

you to some new research called the World Values Survey. This is going to be a new model that we're going to bring in to help us to understand sociological issues, culture, society, the evolution of mankind, and your place in that as an individual.

Because of course you're not just actualizing yourself as an individual. You're part of a community, part of a

society, part of a culture and all of that creates a very serious and crucial backdrop

against which now you're trying to self actualize and it skews your

epistemology, your metaphysics, and many other things.

So this episode here is really a piece of the puzzle of what I call conscious politics.

I have a four-part episode series called conscious politics where I go into a lot of depth on that and this will be another puzzle piece in that to help you to understand

Why politics works the way that it works and it'll help you to understand yourself

So let's get into that but but before we do, let's also reintroduce very

quickly here the other two models we've talked about in the past that are going to be helpful here

because there's going to be a lot of correlation. And the first one is spiral dynamics, of course, hopefully you're familiar with that.

If you're not, go see my six part or even more part series on spiral dynamics, many over 10 hours I talk about that model

it's a very sophisticated model which basically describes the development of

human values and here on the screen you're going to see a slide of just the essence of

what Sprawl Dynamics is so if you want a quick refresher to refresh your

memory there's stages here there's seven or so of these stages different colors purple red

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