Riaan Wilmans

For me, The Square was a clear comment on the limitations of the pluralistic stance of postmodern society. What you get is indecency elevated to the status of decency and the civilised person restrained by their very own ethics to address the indecency. This is what you get in countries such as Sweden adopting a pluralistic stance. Ken Wilber calls this stage 'aperspectival madness'; where any stance or any behaviour weighs the same, i.e. no more hierarchy. He goes forth and recommends the work of Jean Gebser where hierarchy comes back after the postmodern pluralistic stage in what he calls the integral stage where being a gentleman is encouraged above being a lousy nitwit and every preceding stage a necessary stage in the development from a baboon to gentleman.