Proposal: Effective Value Memes 2.0

Integrating Two Foundational Models of Human Development

This piece seeks to explore and synthesize some ideas around the notion of Sovereignty (as conceptualized by Daniel Schmachtenberger & Jordan Hall, see my interpretation here) and Effective Value Memes (as introduced by Hanzi Freinacht in The Listening Society). I’ll assume knowledge of both for this document.

Effective value meme seeks to be a holistic model of developmental psychology. It’s suggested to be made up of one’s complexity, code, state, and depth.

I think Hanzi gets a lot of things right with it, and this is the most useful model of developmental psychology I’m aware of.

My major critique, however, is that it isn’t mapped on to Sovereignty, and that it should.

This post is by no means even close to comprehensively integrating the two. I’ll just show how I think they could be conceptually integrated with one another, and why such integration would be useful. The purpose is to suggest some ideas for co-creation. Luckily, my work here doesn’t have to be perfect to achieve this. You’re invited to read between the lines and look for what I mean.

To me, sovereignty seems to be the more fundamental model, describing more fundamental dimensions of human development, behavior, and existence.

Our mental complexity and the cultural code we are running influence both our sentience — our capacity for…