Unique Self Symphonies

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Marc Gafni and Zachary Stein:

"Social justice is when all have a shared sense of that inviolability and value of each individual’s Unique Self is what constitutes the evolution and health of any group. When a group comes together in such a way where no one’s unique self is diminished, but all are, in fact, leveraged, there emerges a Unique Self Symphony. This requires all the members to hold the group in mind, to envision their part in the self-organizing and self-orchestrating social reality to which they consent to participate.23 A self-conscious Unique Self Symphony is the feeling of being ethically integrated into a larger totality; social justice is about the feeling of harmonious social integration — the felt integrity of one’s unique self is the core of an evolutionary phenomenology of moral consciousness, especially when a group is in the midst of dynamic autocatalytic closure. To fit into the evolutionary puzzle or story (why is it always a struggle?), the shape required by each individual is unique. Other forms of super-organic closure require violence and will ultimately be undone, unseated not because they are physically unsustainable, but because they are unbearable for human identity formation and moral development."

(https://centerforintegralwisdom.org/activist-think-tank/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2018/10/Social-justice-and-superorganisms_FINAL-RoundTable-ZakMarc-19pg.pdf)