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View Article  A quick follow-on proposal to Joe's whole writing
Would be to develop Spiral Dynamics Tag Clouds - similar to the tag cloud of Bush's SOTU address - but of course adding the colors.

There is a big caveat here though, and that is assuming that particular words have specific values - in the spiral dynamics sense - associated with them.  I believe that may be 50% true, but I doubt much more true than that.


View Article  Joe Perez - Writing In a New Way
If you haven't see what Joe is doing recently, make sure to go over and have a look.

It's very "integral-meta", but also a new way at looking at integral writing, and what the writing is "about".  Taking a perspective on your perspectives, and words, and such, and labeling various writing - whether contemplation, statements about moral views, etc - with a color code. 

One of the reasons I personally like this, is because it really breaks up the view that a person is OF a certain color, in the simplistic Spiral Dynamics view.  This becomes very obvious in Joe's painstaking analysis and color-coding of the State of the Union address by President George Bush. 

Within one speech - one speech! - you find nearly all the different values as reflected in the spiral dynamic specrum, while at the same time, getting a visual take of the largest "percentage" of where the speech is coming from.   

For myself, it's quite useful, like seeing a spreadsheet chart graphed or grouped, on miscellaneous data, for the first time.  So much better than a simplistic take, showing that Bush "differentiates across the spectrum of values, while remaining pretty firmly centered in conformity values.

I highly recommend to go take a look at the work Joe has done, in advancing out of a simple view of Spiral Dynamics.