According to Wikipedia, an “egregore is an occult concept representing a certain non-physical entity that arises from the collective thoughts of a distinct group of people….More contemporarily, the concept has referred to a psychic manifestation, or thoughtform, occurring when any group shares a common motivation—being made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of the group” (Egregore, n.d., para. 1-2).
Schmachtenberger, a biomedical engineer and futurist, explained his perspective that in “the United States right now…think of something that you could call wokeism and something that you could call…MAGA-ism…as kind of true competing egregores that both have pretty huge percentages of the population engaging in some way” (Rebel Wisdom, 2022b, 34:40). These egregores indicate what each of the Pew types cares about, and their specific worldview. The table below describes some concerns that have become the subject of party talking points or cultural memes. This naming seems a more intuitive way to make sense of the current voting blocs, more so than party labels.
Egregores Related to Eight Pew Political Types
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Repeat of the Quadrants
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Democrats’ Egregores
Inevitable Human Progress
Democratic mainstays don’t tend to believe in conspiracies, rapture, or the possibility of global economic collapse, but they do have a tendency—regardless of a steady stream of daily shockingly bad news—to think that thru the ups and downs, the overall trajectory of human progress has been and will remain upward
Engineering World Peace
Establishment liberals either celebrate or participate in the TEDtalks or Davos conference, planning for a continued spread of peace and abundance assisted by techno-optimists, a humanist rationalist triumph over the human condition
Fighting Plutocracy
The 1% plutocrats are using the idea of meritocracy as justification for unbridled global corporate competition and control of the political machine; occupy failed; NGO elites are the only ones who can stop them thru united benign policy goals implemented by the IMF and United Nations
Republicans’ Egregores
The 1%
Although some of the new wealth is generated by the tech startups of the establishment liberals or the ambivalent right, committed conservatives know all the tax loopholes and aren’t vying for more likes; they give to trusts that can further their political interests or funnel back into their own stash
Military Industrial Complex (MIC)
The war machine keeps getting bigger and less accountable, now with “pre-emptive attack” and drone strikes on targets whose culpability is uncertain
The Rapture
Pew’s “faith and flag conservatives” are part of the moral majority, many of which are evangelicals awaiting the second coming of Christ
MAGA (make America great again)
…as when the U.S. was orderly and prosperous for middle class Whites and working class Whites (encompasses “faith & flag” as well as Pew’s “populist right”)
Libertarians’ Egregores
New World Order
Pew’s “populist right” 4A terms “patriots disenfranchised” because freedom is under threat from globalization as part of plans for world domination by a powerful elite; which leads to embracing MAGA nationalism
The singularity
Pew’s “ambivalent right” often metropolitan, Ayn Rand fans (rationalist Libertarians); as NTs they embrace novelty and believe in the capacity of science & tech to transcend the human condition
Greens’ Egregores
Wokeism
Pew’s “progressive left” are the social justice warriors fighting for reparations for the economically disadvantaged BIPOC and for queer & transgender rights and social acceptance
The great turning (AKA Plan B)
Pew’s “outsider left” foresees a time when a critical mass will reverse humanity’s course toward destruction and bring about The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (a Charles Eisenstein book title)
References
Egregore. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
Pew Research Center. (2021). Beyond red vs. blue: The political typology. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/PP_2021.11.09_political-typology_REPORT.pdf
Rebel Wisdom. (2022a). In search of the third attractor, Daniel Schmachtenberger (part 2) [Video]. YouTube.