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There are a number of major language systems operating in the civilized world. The English language
system is associated with the British Empire and the French with the French Empire. Spanish and
Portuguese were supported in their hegemony by the empires of Spain and Portugal. Similar imperial
conditions were responsible for the spread of German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, and Chinese languages.
Arabic was spread by the Moslem empires of Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad. The holy scriptures
associated with these empires include the Latin Vulgate bible of the Roman church, the Confucian classics,
Book of Dao (Tao), and Chinese translations of the Buddhist scriptures (Tripitaka, or three baskets of
scriptures), also, the Koran (written in Arabic). Scriptures like these were generated by ancient empire:
Roman, Chinese, Byzantine, Moslem, Hindu, etc.
They include written versions of oral language attributed to Moses, Jesus, Confucius, etc. They are
supported by church organizations such as the Roman Catholic, the Greek Orthodox, the Russian Orthodox,
and have been supported by political organizations such as the Chinese Empire, the Gupta Empire, the
Caliphate, the Sultanate and with cities like Constantinople (Istanbul), Rome, Moscow, Peking, Baghdad, etc.
These empires have disappeared and have been replaced by the United Nations, with its headquarters In
New York, which is attempting to function as a modern League of Athens, lead by the five Nations that won
World War II: UK, France, US, China, Russia (former Soviet Union). Each (except for China) has its own
league in turn (London and the British Queen rule over the British Commonwealth, former British Empire).
Russia is the leader of the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union). France and the UK
are members of the European Union. With the US, they are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance
(NATO). The US leads the Pan American Union of new world states. France remains the informal leader of
what was the French Community.
The only nation with enough military power to police this situation is the United States. This puts it in a
situation similar to that of Athens in the Athenian League, with various rivals playing Sparta, first Germany
and Japan, after World War II, the Soviet Union and China, now it is Iran and Syria and the Moslem world.
The United States is larger in population and area than many of the historic empires. At times, the federal
government exerts an imperial influence in the American sphere of power through use of the military and
clandestine activities of the CIA. Sometimes, the American President seems to exert overseas power similar
to that of a weak emperor with overstretched resources. Understanding what is going on requires an
introduction to the level of organization concept
(for a background on this level of organization approach see Evolution as Entropy, Daniel R. Brooks and E.
O. Wiley, University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 35, p. 43, see also Ervin Laszlo, The Systems View of the
World, Braziller, 1972, Roger Lewin, Complexity, Macmillan, 1992, Gairdener B. Moment, General Zoology,
Houghton Mifflin, 1958, pp. 11 thru 40, Moment's subatomic is here the Protos, atomic is Atomos, molecular
is Zymos, cellular is Bios, multicellular is Psychos, population is Anthros, the below the subatomic is added
as Axios, so also biotic community as Demos, ecosystem as Thermos, biosphere as Electros, planet as
Astros, solar system as Synos, star cluster as Nymphos, galaxy as Daimonos, supergalaxy as Titanos, and
universe as Theos, see also Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Simon and Schuster, 1995, see
pp. 335 to 519, the Bios level is gene driven, the Psychos is meme driven, Athros has an oral language
meme, Demos, written, Thermos, printed, Electros, broadcast, Astros, computer, Synos, internet, web,
Nymphos, virtual reality science fiction, Daimonos, fantasy, Titanos, myth, Theos, theology. This universe
perpetuates itself in hyperspace, see Michio Kaku, Hyperspace, Oxford, 1994, and others.)
The Physical:
Level 1. Axios, energy in all its forms as studied by physics, information stored in electromagnetic waves,
quanta.
Level 2. Protos, particles, electrons, protons,etc, particle physics, information stored in electrical charge, etc.
Level 3. Atomos, atoms, elements, as studied by chemistry, information stored in chemical bonds
Level 4. Zymos, molecules, as studied by organic and biochemistry, information stored in chemical codes,
DNA, etc.
The Biological and Social:
Level 5. Bios, cells and cell structures, as studied by cell biology, microbiology, information stored in genes.
Level 6. Psychos, tissues, organs, organisms, botany, zoology, psychology, information in hormones, nerve
messages
Level 7. Anthros, populations, tribes, population biology, anthropology, information in signals, human speech
Level 8, Demos, biotic communities, cities, ecology, sociology, civilization, history, information in writing
The Technical:
Level 9: Thermos, ecosystems, mechanical systems, machines, technology, information in printing,
mechanical codes
Level 10: Electos, biosphere, electronic systems, televisions, radio, information in broadcasting, electronic
codes
Level 11. Astros, planets, computer systems, data processing, information in computer programs and
storage devices
Level 12. Synos, solar systems, robotics, robots, Internet, web, information in web sites and web servers.
The Fantastic:
Level 13 Nymphos, star clusters, cyborgs, androids, virtual reality, all forms of science fiction possibility
Level 14 Daimonos, galaxies, demons, elves, dwarves, virtual reality fantasy, all forms of fantastic possibility
Level 15. Titanos, super galaxies, titans, virtual reality mythological worlds, all forms of mythological possibility
Level 16. Theos, universes and systems of universes, gods, virtual reality theological worlds, all theological
possibility
Level 16 regenerates by creating daughter universes at level 1, with the power to evolve level 16 universes,
thus, the system is self perpetuating.
The imperial aspects of American foreign policy are part of the operation of the Demos level of organization
and operate out of imperial cities like Washington and New York. These new imperial centers support the old
empires of London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, etc. In general, this imperial aspect weakens from the Demos level
through the emerging Nymphos. Space is an American lake, but Americans make no attempt to stake out
territory in space. The Astros and Synos levels of organization are still areas of competition and innovation.
Marvin Harris is an anthropologist who wrote "Cannibals and Kings," a book that describes the first chiefs as
redistributors of goods, as in the Potlatch ceremonies of Pacific Northwest Indians. Gradually, population
pressure forces more military and less egalitarian uses of chiefs and government. Males are favored
because of their ability to make war. The devaluation of women causes them to be exposed in childhood.
This helps control the population, though its effects on the moral character of civilization and religion are
catastrophic. (See Marvin Harris, "Cannibals and Kings," Vintage Books, 1978, hunter-gathers control
population by prolonged lactation, (the earliest Glutinous, pre-productive, Orientation p. 23, invention of
agriculture creates population pressure (but, pristine agricultural states are the true Productive Orientation),
p. 43, fertility of group critically related to number of women, p. 57, warfare generates male supremacism
(Exploitative Orientation), p. 81, original society involved redistributor chiefs, p. 102 and 102. What Harris
calls "pristine states" is what we have termed the "Productive Orientation. What Harris identifies to warrior
culture is what we are calling "Exploitative Orientation." What Harris calls the "Hydraulic Trap" is what we are
calling "Receptive Orientation" and, when its expanding phase, the" Glutinous Orientation." What Harris calls
the beginnings of capitalism is our transition from the Productive Orientation, to the Segregating, Hoarding,
Refining, and finally through Absolutism and imperial Glutinous mercantilism to Marketing and Utilizing. What
Harris terms "Industrial Bubble," is our Utilizing, Segregating, and Hoarding , and its distributive, or Marketing,
aspects.) Our terminology is developed from the work of Erich Fromm. See "Man for Himself," Fawcett,
1947, pp. 69 -98. We have used the Eploitive/Exploitative Orientation, much as it is found in the work of
Fromm, as a variation on the sadistic way of viewing things, the way of the warrior. We have used the
Receptive Orientation much as Fromm has used it, as a variation on the masochistic. We have used the
Hoarding Orientation much as Fromm has used it, as specialization of the segregating orientation of local city
states that sometimes promotes capitalistic development, in the case of Italy and France in the 13th to 17th
centuries, progress through what we call the Refining (classical temper) and the Receptive, Baroque
temper, rationalist, but expanding into the dialectic, eclectic, and imperial Glutinous (the fullest development
is the Hegelian dialectic and Prussian Imperialism, the 19th Century symbolism, primitivism and
Post-Impressionism, the eclecticism of the imperial 19th Century French, Dutch, British national tempers. We
have separated capitalist (expressionist) and socialist (realist) variants of Fromm's Marketing Orientation into
Marketing and Utilizing (the difference between Harding and FDR, between Los Angeles and Copenhagen).
We have broken the Segregating (archaic classical, and impressionistic) and Refining (high classical) modes
of Fromm's Productive Orientation away from the primitive Productive Orientation (equivalent of Harris'
"Pristine States").
So we have created a model, on other pages of this site, that recognizes eight orientations: the productive
orientation (self maintaining, as in the Maring of New Guinea), the exploitative (exploitive) orientation (tribal
warfare), the segregating and hoarding orientation (isolation, local control), the refining orientation
(aristocratic, classical), the receptive orientation (totalitarian, absolutism), the glutinous orientation
(expansionist, overseas, colonial, imperialism, mercantilism), the marketing orientation (consumer capitalism),
the utilizing orientation (democratic socialism, realism). Potlatch chiefs represent the productive orientation.
Tribal militarism represents the exploitative orientation (as described in the paragraph above).
The exploitative orientation can generate extreme Darwinian selection at the Anthros and Demos level as a
result of the extinction of tribes and city states. Plundered cultures respond by isolating and hoarding stored
wealth. The result is the growth of the segregating and hoarding orientation and the growth of isolating city
states and hoarding empires.
In the case of ancient Greece, a Neo-Darwinian model was working similar to the following:
FLUX
Source: Productive Orientation, Mutation, New ideas, codes
variation ground
CONCENTRATION transcendent CONNECTION
conserve purpose
Ideal: Refining Orientation, Set Point, adaptive codes
Free: Exploitive Orientation Mixed: Glutinous Orientation
Natural Selection, Extinction Recombination, gene pool
individual LAW/FIXED collective
Separate: Segregating/Hoarding Orientation Order: Receptive Orientation
Analysis of Input/Isolation Feedback Mechanisms/Reproduction
Result: Utilizing Orientation, Properties, traits
form sameness
DISCONNECTION measurement DISTRIBUTION
action development
Perform: Marketing Orientation, Emergence, Expression, Phenotype
FLUX
The model developed above uses the systems organizing principles suggested in Sol Tax, ed, Volume I, The
Evolution of Life, University of Chicago,1960, see pp. 14 -21, 47, 95 -113, 197 -223, 307 -343, particularly
important is the notion of evolutionary feed-back, see pp. 338 - 340, 349 - 378, 381 -471, note Wright on
selective peaks, p. 451 (our set points, adaptive codes, for memes, as well as genes, all of this is set out on
a cut open octahedron, tetrahedron, cube, see R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics 2, Macmillan, 1979, see
Cosmic Hierarchy plate following page 360, see also "Deceptiveness of Topology, note vector edges of the
tetrahedron, octahedron. These octahedral vector edges are shown without capitals in our model above,
thus, "measurement," "form," The vector edges of the tetrahedron are shown as capital letters, thus, "FLUX,"
and "DISCONNECTION."
In the case of ancient Greece, isolation, the segregating and hoarding orientations, allowed the development
of separate city states that were able to defend themselves against exploitation and empire. As these city
states developed local culture and local aristocracies, the refining orientation and its classical temper began
to dominate. The most powerful city states were able to pass on cultural notions to the imperial systems that
began to emerge and power was consolidated into absolutism and empire (glutinous) by individuals like
Alexander the Great and his generals. The expansion of imperial power centers stimulated consumption of
wealth and the glutinous and receptive orientations.
The productive orientation stimulated an explosion of exploitive orientation activity when growing population
pressure and the invention of a new form of long ship allowed the Vikings to raid the coasts of England,
France, and Ireland.
The exploitive orientation stimulated the segregating and hoarding orientations, as local kingdoms reacted to
the pressures generated by Viking raids. This local specialized development gradually stimulated the
emergence of local aristocracy and local centers of knowledge and skill. The refining orientation began to
dominate in many city states, not just in places like Flanders, but in Italian city states like Florence. This
return to the refining orientation and its classical temper is called the "Renaissance."
Just as the high point of the Greek refining orientation, and its classical temper, stimulated an increase in the
receptive and imperial (glutinous) orientations, and finally the marketing and utilizing orientations, as
Classical civilization developed into Hellenic, Roman and finally Byzantine and Moslem extension of Greek
Classical Set Points (cultural models), so the refining orientation of Florence, Flanders, Elizabethan England
would stimulate the receptive and glutinous orientations that would manifest in French absolutism, Spanish
and Portuguese Empire, British and French and Dutch Empire. At the same time art and literature began to
pass from the classical temper to the baroque and rococo (glutinous).
The gradual emergence of the Thermos level of civic and national organization, out of the Demos, brought
with it the increasing emergence of the marketing and utilizing orientations, the former characterized more by
the capitalist and consumer populist political modes and the later by the socialist, egalitarian, and
democratic. This stimulated the emergence of the realist and naturalist tempers in art (normally associated
with the utilizing orientation).
Africa, South and Central America, and the Pacific were subject to exploration by the expanding Spanish,
Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British empires. Cultures in these regions were generally at the Anthros, or
early Demos levels of organization. The presence of these primitive cultures, many in the primitive glutinous
(food gathering), productive or exploitative orientations, stimulated conflict between these emerging empires
and drew these empires into the exploitive mode in the race to obtain the largest share of available plunder
(to feed their glutinous imperial needs). These new outbreaks of exploitive activity, and the pressures and
conflicts associated with them, stimulated a temporary return to the refining and segregating orientations in
the form of the Enlightenment, as well as a return to the classical temper in the form of Neoclassical art.
The impact of cultures still in the productive mode on cultures in the refining mode stimulated a new
emergence of artistic temper in the form of the romantic, the symbolic, and later the primitive (glutinous
consumption by empire of its primitive gathering elements) mode of the Post-Impressionist. The further
development of the isolating and segregating orientations as a result of the rise of nationalism and
republicanism, stimulated the emergence of the impressionist temper. Finally, the effect of increased activity
in the marketing orientation and the rise of consumer capitalism stimulated the expressionist temper in art.
As the Electros, and Astros began to emerge from the Thermos, increasing amounts of individualism and
segregating orientation activity could be seen, supporting the technical and information specialization
needed to facilitate the emergence of these higher levels. Conflicts between the Anthros, Demos, Thermos,
and Electros levels of organization, and the aristocracy supporting the organization at various levels,
generated major conflicts in the form of World War I and II. Da Da, Cubist, and various forms of Abstract
and Abstract Expressionist art were manifestations of these developments and demonstrated tempers
appropriate to the new forms of exploitive and segregating orientation that were emerging.
Effective set points require the healthy functioning of all levels of organization. A healthy functioning
productive orientation gets its energy at the Axios and Protos levels from sources such as sunlight. It
recycles necessary minerals at the Atomos and Zymos levels and preserves genetic information at the Bios
and Psychos levels. A healthy functioning exploitive orientation is healthy at the Anthros level and obtains
materials and energy from the productive orientation without destroying that orientation, or the organization
that supports it. The segregating and refining orientations also support a healthy Anthros that does not
damage the exploitive and productive orientations that support them. The Demos and Thermos of the
receptive and glutinous orientations are equally healthy and obtain energy from supporting refining and
exploitive orientations without damage to these orientations and their supportive organizational structure at
all lower levels of order and energy and material collection. Finally, the Thermos, Electros, Astros, Synos,
and all emerging higher levels of organization, of the marketing and utilizing orientations, are equally healthy
and supportive of the orientations that feed them at all levels of supporting systems process.
Dysfunctions, such as those associated with Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, seem to involve unhealthy Anthros
behavior of the tribal and exploitive type, supported by receptive and glutinous (even marketing) orientations
that are totalitarian and imperial in character. These tribal and imperial systems tend to avoid normal
utilizing, segregating, and refining processes necessary for healthy set points. They are weak at the Anthros
and Demos level in all but the expansion of the segregating orientation into the exploitive, glutinous, and
receptive. They compensate for this weakness by technical competence at the emerging Electros, Astros,
Synos, Nymphos, Daimonos, and Titanos levels. These local tyrants operate tribal and imperial systems that
are parasites on higher levels of organization, much as a virus, bacterium, fungus, nematode, tapeworm can
live as a parasite on higher organisms.
Because of its situation as an island kingdom, as a world sea power, England, and the English language
Anthros, Demos, and Thermos, have been able to preserve much of their integrity and hold that integrity
against emerging conflicts at the Thermos and Electros levels. This isolation has kept them from infection
with many of the tribal and imperial parasites operating on the continent. Even so, their overseas activity has
often become imperial and glutinous, they have been drawn into conflicts over empire, and finally created the
greatest overseas imperial system known in history: the British Commonwealth. The American Demos has
been subjected to a similar experience as a subunit of the larger system driven by printed English, broadcast
English, data processing English. Anthros (oral language) based communication is taken to written, printed,
broadcast, programing, and Internet levels and beyond (Demos, Thermos, Electros, Astros, Synos).
A diagram showing the relationship of some of these Athros/Demos based Thermos/Electros systems might
work as follows:
Right cerebral hemisphere, cingulate, frontal, motor area, central sulcus, somatosensory, parietal, temporal
occipital
FLUX
MALAY-INDONESIAN**
Source: Languages of Tropical Rainforest
variation ground
CONCENTRATION transcend CONNECTION
JAPANESE* HINDI* (TIBETAN)
conserve purpose
Ideal: South Asian Languages
Free: Oceanic Area Mix: Southeast Asian
Languages Individual LAW collective Languages
ENGLISH**** ARABIC*** CHINESE****
Separate: Mediterranean Order: Central Asian
Languages Languages
ITALIAN* FRENCH**
Result: Northern European Languages
form sameness
DISCONNECTION measure DISTRIBUTION
(SWEDISH, DANISH) DUTCH GERMAN** RUSSIAN**
action SPANISH*** - PORTUGUESE** development
Perform: East Asian Languages
Latin American Languages
FLUX
MALAY-INDONESIAN**
L E G E N D:
VERY DOMINANT ANTHROS-DEMOS-THERMOS****, DOMINANT***MAJOR PRINTED LANGUAGE**
REGIONALLY DOMINANT LANGUAGE* (MINOR ANTHROS-DEMOS with important global role) STATUS
UNCERTAIN
Groups of Languages with Regional
B R A I N F U N C T I O N L E G E N D:
From outer autonomic and reticulate to basal ganglia and cerebral association in inner center, Left to Right
of Chart,
Left hemisphere, cingulate, frontal, broca's, motor area, central sulcus, somatosensory, parietal, temporal,
occipital
The Japanese Anthros-Demos-Thermos-Electros is playing the role of the creative concentration point for
the world system, the language system most willing to absorb and consider new ideas. This Japanese
Demos is very heavy on the utilizing, segregating and refining orientations, as well social habits bound in
receptive orientation traditions. The strength of this social core is probably one source of the ability of the
Japanese system to absorb technical and scientific ideas.
In contrast, the Arabic Athros-Demos-Thermos-Electros is playing the role of the Demos least ready to
accept the ideas of the West. It tends to fixate on the Koran and traditional Islamic law and culture. The
shattered character of the old Moslem Caliphate, its segregation into numerous separate states: Tunisia,
Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc., under the influence of
various foreign language systems, Italian in Libya, English in Egypt, French in Syria, Spanish in parts of
Morocco, this has generated a degree of instability that makes it difficult for the Arabic Demos to find an
effective way of integrating new ideas. The instability tends to stimulate a retreat to exploitative, hoarding,
and receptive orientations that encourage dependent, masochistic, and compulsive response systems that
make it difficult for this Demos to adapt to new situations.
The English language Demos-Thermos-Electros-Astros-Synos has become the model for the individualistic
approach to organizational emergence. There is great emphasis on local debate, local analysis and various
aspects of the segregating orientation perfected in the city states of ancient Greece and later in the British
Parliament, the colonial assemblies of the British colonies and in the academic institutions of the English
speaking world: Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, etc. Associated with this Demos are notions developed
by Charles Darwin, such as "natural selection" and by Adam Smith, the "free market." The access of the
English Demos-Thermos-Electros-Astros-Synos, through London, Washington, New York, Johnson Space
Center in Houston, to the great sea of water, air, and space is probably one source of its ability to emphasize
individualism, segregation, analysis. The sea of water, air, and space allows it to integrate, mix, and join
where and when it chooses.
In contrast, the Chinese language Demos-Thermos-Electros-Astros-Synos has remained the model for the
collective approach to organizational emergence. Even in its embrace of the capitalist free market, the
Chinese Demos remains far more collectivist and biased toward receptive and hoarding orientations than
almost any of the segments and aspects of the English language social system. The Chinese language
Demos tends to have access to the ocean, and the sea of space, only from major cities and ports like Hong
Kong. The Chinese conceptual system is built more upon the notion of the state than the notion of the
individual. Its geography tends to be focused on a central core of continental basins drained by long rivers
like the Yellow River. The inability of China to easily escape these basins and the vulnerability of these
basins to attack from the grasslands and steppes beyond is a historical theme of the Chinese Demos. Thus
the English Demos encourages the narcissistic, and in its American and Australian variant, the histrionic,
antisocial, sadistic. The Chinese Demos is more dependent, borderline, masochistic, compulsive, passive
aggressive. In its Buddhist and Daoist (Taoist) variants, even schizotypal.
The Hindi language Demos is much more loosely organized at its edges, more tightly organized at its deep
core. It is associated with the Anthros and Demos organization of a number of South Asian languages and
cultures rooted in the Hindu forms in "Sanskrit," and in the Theravada Buddhist, in "Pali." These Anthros and
Demos systems preserve the refining and receptive orientations that support the remains of an number of
ancient cultures and empires dating from the empire of Asoka and the empire of the Guptas. They preserve
a number of cultural systems that are resisting, at some level, religious, philosophical, social, the full impact
of Western scientific and social ideas. One of the sources of the conservative character of these Anthros
and Demos systems is the role that the Himalayas have played in protecting South Asian language systems
from invasion and conquest, prior to Islam and the Portuguese, French, and English. Language systems of
the Himalayas and Tibet provide a transition between South Asia and the Chinese language system.
The geography of Northern Europe has been exposed to constant invasion both by land and sea. Northern
Europe has developed Anthros and Demos systems that are rivals for dominance in technology and science.
As a result, the Anthros and Demos systems of Europe are tipped more toward science and technology and
the utilizing and marketing orientations. If the Hindi language has deep roots in Sanskrit and in local Anthros
and Demos systems, the Dutch, French, German, Danish put greater emphasis on expansion into the
Electros, Astros, Synos and beyond.
Of these systems, the GERMAN, RUSSIAN, FRENCH, and SPANISH are most important. The FRENCH is
more conservative and tipped more toward the socialist and democratic utilizing orientation. The SPANISH is
more commercial and expressive and tipped more toward the marketing orientation (with many exceptions,
note Cuba).
The RUSSIAN tends to be more collectivist, and the GERMAN, in its current development (post-Hitler), more
Individualist (lead by the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch Anthros-Demos-Thermos, with which the
GERMAN is associated, through the European Union and NATO).
This system is far from perfect, but we can see how these systems tend to order themselves geographically.
A similar order appears to correlate with brain architecture, working from lower brain autonomic and
reticulate at the outside toward upper brain basal ganglia and cerebral association at the inner center of the
diagram, the top representing the right hemisphere of the cerebrum (meaning and connection emphasis)
and the bottom representing the left hemisphere (fact and language). The left side of the diagram as
cingulate and frontal lobe, moving toward Broca's, motor area, somatosensory, parietal, temporal, and
occipital lobes.
These tempers, orientations, systems functions, seem to cluster together in certain patterns:
FLUX (Revolutionary)
variation ground
Source: Genetic Mutation
Productive Orientation (Maring of New Guinea)
Romantic (Gothic) Temper
Ecological Emphasis
Aboriginal Type
CONCENTRATION (Aristocratic) transcend CONNECTION (Monarchy, Theocracy)
Ideal: Set Point, Thermostat
Refining Orientation (Ancient Athens)
Classical Temper
Noble Emphasis
Exemplary Type
conserve purpose
Free: Natural Selection, Extinction Mix: Recombination, Gene Pool
Exploitive Orientation (Vikings) Glutinous Orientation (Spanish
Empire) Da Da (Cubist) Temper Symbolist
(Post-Impressionist) Temper Liberty Emphasis
Union Emphasis
Free Enterprise Type Imperial Type, also
Food-Gathers
exploited by empire
individual LAW (Constitutional) collective
Separate: Analysis of Input Order: Feed Back Mechanism
Segregating and Hoarding Orientations Receptive Orientation
Impressionist Temper Baroque Temper
Federal Emphasis (Swiss Republic) Absolutist Emphasis (Louis XIV)
Republican Type Bureaucratic Type
form sameness
Result: Traits and Property Measures
Utilizing Orientation
Realistic (Naturalistic) Temper
Democratic Emphasis (Modern Sweden)
Pragmatic Industrial Type
DISCONNECTION (Capitalism) measurement DISTRIBUTION (Socialism)
Perform: Adaptation and Phenotype
Marketing Orientation
Expressionist Temper
Populist Emphasis (Modern Florida)
Consumer Type
action development
FLUX (Revolutionary)
Indo-European tribes develop mutant cultural ideas in the productive orientation and carry these ideas with
them as they expand in the exploitive orientation, becoming expert at tribal warfare. The ancient Dorian
Greeks are examples that fit this model. Later, the Greeks would settle down and develop local towns and
city states. These states would become part of trading organizations. The Greek cities became rivals with
other Mediterranean city states, as the marketing orientation began to overwhelm the exploitive orientation.
Consolidation of power among city states, the absorption of city states into larger kingdoms, eventually
empires like those of Persia, Alexander the Great, finally Roman and Byzantium, brought greater emphasis
on the imperial assimilation/glutinous orientation.
As these practices stabilized, city states would isolate, developing their own unique successful combinations
of ideas. Gradually, as these ideas were perfected, first the segregating, hoarding, and then the refining
orientation took hold, establishing a Classical temper Set Point of ideas and models in culture, politics,
philosophy, literature, drama, and art. These set points were emulated and absorbed by developing
empires, those of the Hellenic states, Rome, Byzantium, etc. Feed back mechanics were established to
maintain order, to assure adherence to the idealized set points over larger and larger complexes of cities,
countryside, and communication and transportation systems. At this point, the receptive orientation began to
triumph over the refining orientation and republicanism and aristocracy were replaced by various
combinations of totalitarian, bureaucratic, militaristic, and theocratic practice. We see this as we pass from
Democratic and Republican Athens (and Early Rome) to Classical Athens, Hellenic Empire and Hellenic
imperial glutinous and assimilating states, early and late Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire.
At lower levels of organization, Anthros, Demos, early Thermos, utilizing and marketing orientations are more
limited, found mainly in the early and late phases of the imperial development cycle. At higher levels of
organization, Electros, Astros, Synos, the utilizing and marketing orientations, the democratic and populist
emphasis come to play a more and more important role in the cycles of mutation and set point system
establishment and renewal.
Even so, the set point system cycle is always subject to predation and parasitism. It is always possible for
fringe systems to develop methods of conquest and attack that allow them to capture and overthrow
vulnerable elements of evolving organizational complexes and absorb them into rogue empires like those of
Stalin, Hitler,etc, that generated the internal crisis associated with World War II. Instability within the Arabic
world is creating the opportunity for the development of chaotic systems like those that emerged within the
unstable Eurasian Demos-Thermos in the early and mid 20th Century. Problems increase when this
instability draws unstable elements with more organized Demos-Thermos-Electos-Astros systems, like those
of the US, UK, NATO, UN into this chaos in ways that are destructive to the larger emerging order.
Lets look in depth at our systems model:
Fixed
Constant Principle
Conservation Ideal System
Preservation Essence Depth Complete
Self Infinitesimal Eternal Infinite Whole
Preservation Differentiation Source Possible Ground Complete
Conservation Peculiar Novel Magic Indefinite Universal System
Constant Isolation Disagreement Irregular Fluid Medium Inclusion Principle
Fixed Analysis Locus Freedom Energy Mixture Space Order
Fixed
Structure Segment Exclusion Motion Change Assembly Agreement
Regular
Definite Local Break Expression Expenditure Average Sameness
Figure Process Surface Accident Distribution Equal
Part Finite Time Measurable Group
Figure Reality Product Equal
Definite Result Sameness
Structure Regular
Fixed
Now lets flip the model and look at it from the back:
Energy
Change Motion
Expenditure Expression Break
Distribution Accident Surface Process
Group Measurable Time Finite Part
Distribution Equal Product Reality Figure Process
Expenditure Average Sameness Result Definite Local Break
Change Assembly Agreement Regular Structure Segment Exclusion Motion
Energy Mixture Space Order Fixed Analysis Locus Freedom Energy
Fluid Medium Inclusion Principle Constant Isolation Disagreement Irregular
Indefinite Universal System Ideal Conservation Peculiar Novel
Ground Complete Depth Essence Preservation Differentiation
Whole Infinite Eternal Infinitesimal Self
Ground Possible Source Differentiation
Indefinite Magic Novel
Fluid Irregular
Energy
If the chart above is flipped and goes from right to left, rather than left to right, it will look like some of those
at the beginning of our series so we have:
six faces of a cube: self to group, fixed to energy, whole to part
eight corners of a cube, ideal to expression, magic to result, analysis to mixture, freedom to order
twelve edges of a cube, eternal to time, locus to space, conservation to expenditure, novel to sameness
system to break, indefinite to definite
these are broken down in turn into infinite to finite, infinitesimal to measurable, peculiar to average, local to
universal
principle to motion, complete to process, ground to figure, fluid to structure, differentiation to equal, irregular
to regular, change to constant, preservation to distribution.
the angles of the cube are essence to accident, source to product, isolation to assembly, disagreement to
agreement
surface to depth, inclusion to exclusion, possible to reality, medium to segment
another set of angles should appear
off of Magic should be power and mixture haze and expression vulgar and freedom revolution as opposed to
Result and stability, analysis and accuracy, Ideal and code, order and regulation
these are not showing up in the above model because of the effects of flattening and stretching, thus:
Energy
Power
Magic
Self Infinitesimal Eternal Infinite Whole
Ideal
Peculiar Universal
Code
Energy Revolution Freedom Locus Analysis Accuracy Fixed Regulation Order Space Mixture Haze Energy
Stability
Local Average
Result
Part Finite Time Measurable Group
Expression
Vulgar
Energy
As you may have noted, the version shown above is the basic prototype for most of the presentations of this
model used on this web site!
But consider the following:
Group Group Group
Equal Agreement Average
Sameness Order
Space
Regular Inclusion Universal
Fixed Principle System Complete Whole
Constant Depth Infinite
Structure Conservation Ideal Eternal Ground
Preservation Essence Infinitesimal
Group inite Segment Analysis Isolation Self Source Magic Possible Indefinite Group
Product Result Reality Medium Mixture
Assembly
Peculiar Disagreement Differentiation
Figure Locus Freedom Novel Fluid
Local Exclusion Irregular
Part Process Break Motion Energy
Finite Surface Change
Time Expression Expenditure
Measurable Accident Distribution
Group Group
Group
We could do more work to fill this pattern in, but the basic square above should be familiar to us as Aristotle's
Four causes, the material (indefinite), the pattern cause (definite), the motion cause (break), and the
purpose cause (system).
Whole
There is one more of these: Medium
Mixture
Assembly
Flux Change Expenditure Distribution Group
Accident
Irregular Expression Equal
Surface
Novel Part Sameness
Segment
Differentiation Analysis Regular
Isolation
Self Preservation Conservation Constant Fixed
Essence
Ideal
Depth
Whole
In this case, we move from novel differentiation to preservation and conservation to regularness and
equalness to expenditure. This is a seed that is differentiated, falls on the soil and is preserved, reproduces
the regular features of its kind and expends its energy to differentiate a new flower, thus we have the natural
cycle of reproduction, growth, differentiation, and recycling and storage.
Consider the following model:
ANALYSIS to SYNTHESIS corner PERMANENT to TEMPORARY edge MODEL to DECAY
corner
DISCRIMINATION PRISTINE PERMANENT GOODNESS SUBJECT
glue influx temporary spoil expression
INVESTIGATION ELEMENTAL SIMPLICITY PURITY REFINEMENT GUIDE MODEL PARADIGM IDEA
MEANING
tangle composite compound mixture adulteration metamorphosis decay ruin implications
appearance
ANALYSIS CLARITY STANDARD IDEAL SERIOUSNESS
synthesis haze alteration depravity shadow
DIAGNOSIS PRECISION PRINCIPLE VIRTUE FULLNESS
confusion fog mutation degradation hollow
DETERMINATION CERTAINTY ACCURACY CORRECT LAW RULE RIGHTEOUS CONSUMMATION SATIETY
FILLING
noise chance error mistake accident transformation fad elimination empty
hole
DEFINITION RIGOUR CODE PERFECTION COMPLETE
chaos rift disaster process incomplete
FORMLESS to FORM edge FIXED to FLUX face PERFECTION to PROCESS
edge
FRAMEWORK FIXED REGULATION FULFILLMENT FINISHED
dissolution flux catastrophe motion partial
STRUCTURE SKELETON RIGIDITY STABILITY CONTROL DIRECTION GOAL VECTOR SYSTEM
ENTIRE
substance liquid melt force explosion revolution action scatter fragment
piece
CONSTITUTION INERTIA MANAGEMENT TERMINATION INTEGRITY
potential energy expulsion eruption breakage
PROPERTY SUBMISSION GOVERNMENT CLOSURE INTEGRATION
opportunity power wildness openness disruption
RESOURCE NECESSITY REQUIREMENT RESTRICT UNIFORM REPEAT SEQUENCE ORDER ORGANIZE
DIVERSION
problem sufficiency capacity ability diversity adventure experiment freedom liberate
incorporate
SCARCITY UNIMAGINATIVE HOMOGENEITY HARMONY CONTRACT
wealth imagination variation contrast release
PRODUCTIVITY to PRODUCT corner SAMENESS to DIFFERENCE edge ORDER to
FREEDOM corner
POVERTY CORRESPONDENCE SAMENESS PROPORTION
multiplication creativity difference exaggeration
BARREN PRODUCT CONSEQUENCE COPY RESEMBLANCE EVEN SYMMETRY COMPACT
proliferation productivity generation invention innovation uneven asymmetry license
YIELD EFFECT ROUTINE AGREEMENT
mainspring cause novelty eccentric
SAMPLE DERIVATIVE HABITUAL CONSENSUS
source start unusual peculiar
REPRESENTATIVE TRIBUTARY COLLATERAL IMITATIVE TYPICAL CUSTOMARY CONFORMITY
TOLERANCE
ultimate basis root original extraordinary rare odd alienation
SUBSEQUENT SECONDARY FAMILY COMMUNITY
fundamental primary uniqueness stranger
REPRESENTATIVE to ULTIMATE edge SELF to ASSEMBLY face INDIVIDUALITY to
CONGREGATION edge
TRIVIAL COMMONNESS SOCIETY COOPERATION
importance genius singularity autonomous
PEONAGE HUMBLE SHARING MOB ASSEMBLY ASSOCIATION RELATIONSHIP CONGREGATION
superiority weight density identity self character personality individuality
DEPENDENT FRATERNITY DISTRIBUTION ACCIDENT
independent solitary concentration essence
COMBINATION INVOLVEMENT DISBURSE ROGUE
isolated seclusion save critical
MERGER COMMITMENT ALLEGIANCE RISK EXPOSURE DIFFUSION WASTE PERFORMANCE
sequester aloof reserved safety protection hoard precious theme
ATTACHMENT INVESTMENT WEAR SQUANDER
detach storage maintenance value
ANALYSIS to SYNTHESIS corner TEMPORARY to PERMANENT edge MODEL to DECAY corner
I
GLUE INFLUX TEMPORARY SPOIL
discrimination pristine permanent goodness
In the model shown above, we are turning a cube from the FIXED to ASSEMBLY face, it will continue on from
flux to self. We need to turn the cube to the side in order to display the Fixed to Flux faces:
UNIFORMITY CONTROL LAW REFINEMENT
diversity explosion accident adulteration
HOMOGENEITY GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT REGULATION CODE PRINCIPLE STANDARD PERMANENT
variation wildness explosion catastrophe disaster mutation alteration temporary
REPETITION DIRECTION RULE GUIDE
adventure revolution transformation metamorphosis
SEQUENCE GOAL RIGHTEOUSNESS MODEL
experiment action fad decay
HARMONY CLOSURE TERMINATION FULFILLMENT PERFECTION VIRTUE IDEAL GOODNESS
contrast openness eruption motion process degradation depravity spoil
ORDER VECTOR CONSUMMATION PARADIGM
freedom scatter elimination ruin
FREEDOM to ORDER corner MOTION to FULFILLMENT edge MODEL to DECAY corner
ORGANIZATION SYSTEM SATIETY IDEA
liberation fragment empty implications
CONTRACT INTEGRATION INTEGRITY FINISHED COMPLETE FULLNESS SERIOUSNESS SUBJECT
release disruption breakage partial incomplete hollow shadow expression
INCORPORATION ENTIRE FILLING MEANING
diversion piece hole appearance
ASSIMILATION TOTAL CENTER SIGNIFICANCE
expulsion portion projection image
ACCEPTANCE INCLUSION ABSORPTION WHOLE HEART DEPTH CONTENT BEYOND
ejection exclusion splinter part fringe surface periphery manifest
COMPREHENSIVE COSMIC PROFOUND SPIRIT
exception locality shallow reflection
INDIVIDUALITY to CONGREGATION edge WHOLE to PART face REPRESENTATIVE to ULTIMATE edge
UNIVERSAL ONENESS BOTTOMLESS INVISIBLE
local barrier bottom visible
COLLECTION COMMUNICATION CONNECTION BRIDGE BOUNDLESS INFINITE IMMEASURABLE
TRANSCENDENT distinction compartment section partition boundary finite
measurable demonstration CONJUNCTION LINKAGE
LIMITLESS INTANGIBLE
segments division limit tangible
FUSION MEDIUM INDEFINITE UNCONDITIONED
segregation category outline conditioned
UNION GENERAL VAGUE AMORPHOUS SUBSTANCE POSSIBILITY FANTASY INEXHAUSTIBLE
separation particular specific morphology shape attribute fact exhaustible
WEB BACKGROUND FORMLESS MIRACLE
dissection detail form reality
ANALYSIS to SYNTHESIS corner FORMLESS to FORM edge PRODUCTIVITY to PRODUCT corner
TANGLE NOISE &n