In the Integral Political Theory, the fundamental conflict in American politics today is not between Democrats and Republicans or progressives and conservatives (those categories blur critical distinctions and can't account for the diversity of actual political thought). Instead, Wilber sees the most central conflict as that between internalists and externalists. Internalists see the cause of suffering in the self's motivations, values, and human nature whereas externalists see the cause of problems in forces external to the self. The Right blames you for your own misery, whereas the Left blames other people. Integral Politics rejects the partial distinctions of Right and Left in favor of a more complex analysis that uses all four major scales. The first step in such an analysis is to index or catalog every political system in history, and then identify its ingredients according to a comprehensive map of consciousness: the integral map.

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