Bubble Diagram

Paolo Soleri created the "Bubble Diagram" to illustrate the multiple layers in which we can comprehend reality within the larger universal framework of life and existence as part of the Arcology Worldview or ideology. Soleri used this teaching tool during his school of Thought Discussions at Arcosanti so as to help students of his work understand the many levels of distortion that go beyond Political Correctness

A critical analysis of contemporary culture in relation to Arcology Theory might posit that mainstream thinking promotes superficial understandings of reality and life that lead to an uninformed electorate that denies the unsustainability of modern civilization. More that being "PC" however it is linked to a root desire on the part of politicians to pander to people's bad habits, vices, fears and biases, leading to a prevailing (and thusly often rootless and superficial) conflict of hypocritical ideologies, parties and social movements within modern social, culture and political life. Underlying this is as Marx noted the economic infrastructure of capitalism which explains that essentially under that system the might of wealth makes right in political culture.

Yet while an interpretation of this Diagram is that Political Correctness expresses a fundamental misunderstanding about life and its evolution, it can also be seen as an aspiration to develop a more enlightened view of how people might thoughtfully exchange ideas while still embracing a full spectrum of ideologies and understandings of reality. So rather than see the constraints of political correctness as a purely negative process, we can see political constraints to speaking frankly and honestly about the contradictions and challenges of human reality, as something that we will evolve from. Soleri suggested that there is a framework to human evolution towards the Arcology Worldview/Lean Alternative in relation to his Bubble Diagram which includes 4 key aspects:

• 1. Political Correctness - The PC culture is a complex myraid of actors in a society driven by self centered vested interests and preconceived notions of reality.

  2. Historical Fitness - Starting to see the patterns of human dysfunctional which are passed on to us over time. This manifests as the Global Consciousness Seed which helps us to transcend our petty sense of ourselves in relation to the vast history and experiences of greater humanity.

  3. Ecological Soundness - a firm grasp of how the world works and our understanding of how we relate and interact with natural systems

  4. Universal Consciousness - Transcending the idea of the singular planetary reality to see a multitude of unversal experience which from our reality could well be considered as an infinite range of possibilities.

Our evolution requires that in order for us to be sustainable or what he terms lean (as part of the creation of the lean alternative to corporate consumer driven capitalism), we must explore not only political correctness but also deeper and more fundamental notions of reality that because they have been misinterpreted or skewed through modern and parochial biases, distort the truth of how the universe works and affects us as humans.