(Gavin Ritz 2011.04.27.10.06NZT)
(Chad Green 2011.04.26.11.50EDT)
Hi there Chad
Here is something I was
thinking about. It’s still in it’s infancy of thought.
I want to explain PCT to
someone that has never heard of feedback systems, psychology or anything like
the terms we use.
I don’t want to use
the car driving analogy or the rubber band one.
Let’s call it a
colour world. (The world is made of seven colours)
In this world there are
seven colours of the rainbow.
Red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet.
Individuals belong to
only one group initially.
So initially they have a
red world mind or an orange world mind etc.
There are shades of reds
too and the individuals belonging to each specific colour world can see the
shades of their colours and ever so slight glimpses into the next colour. (Initially).
All the colour people do
actions that brighten their colours in their minds. Different actions for
different levels of brightness. (It’s a wonderful simple world). Their
actions are the tuning fork for their colour mind. In other words their actions
control the intensity of their mind colour.
For example the yellow
minded people “dance” to brighten dark yellow.
So when a yellow mind
person sees a red mind person dancing, the yellow mind person immediately
thinks the red mind person is helping to brighten their dark yellow and that’s
that. No conflict.
But in actual fact the
red mind persons dances to brighten “light red” mind. That’s
their tuning fork to control the colour mind.
It’s just a
wonderful simple world; the colour minded individuals just do things that
brighten their own colour minds. That is they control their own colour intensities.
Then the worlds start to
mix, red mind people meet other colour minded people. Now it becomes 5040 (7!) different
mixes of colour shades in the world instead of 7 separate worlds.
They start to create new
groups red-green and red-yellow, and blue-violet-orange.
All of a sudden there is a
massive fragmentation of groups but it’s not all bad because a new concentration
emerges. So now groups can have a number of actions (dancing, kissing,
touching) that control their brightness across a range of their mind colours.
Lots of different things they do control lots of different colour intensities.
But some actions seem to
dull the colours. This leaves some groups confused. Then they realise it was
the mixing that caused the problem, they look into their own group and see only
a few odd colours (amongst the many colors) in it. This they conclude is the
dull makers and the dull makers are immediately ejected from the group.
There are now many of the
ejected colour minds wondering around and eventually they all meet in another
place, there are many of these mixed colour minds. They create a vast mixed
colour mind group. (I wonder what country this could be).
But the mixed original
groups still find they have dullness and this really worries the groups even
though they have ejected the dull colour minds.
Then a few groups find a
substance that when rubbed on the skin brightens all the colours. This they now
assume to be a magic substance that will make their world perfect.
There is a problem
though, this substance is only found in a few of the colour group’s
territory.
No problem some of the
colour groups say, we will go and take it for ourselves.
It now becomes obvious to
all the groups that each of the other groups is the cause of their dullness because
they are taking away the magical brightness substance.
An all out conflict then
erupts between the groups.
The vast mixed group seem
to have the upper edge because there are so much of them.
Regards
Gavin
Actually what I think this discussion reveals is a
deeper truth of
which I was not aware until today. Until then I had
assumed that
everyone could adopt my Pollyannaish mentality, but
history tells us
otherwise…
On that note, is anyone familiar with Dumézil’s
trifunctional
hypothesis, a tripartite ideology that divides
Proto-Indo-European
civilization into three distinct classes or roles:
warriors, priests,
and commoners:
A similar social order known as the Three Estates was
conceived from
the Middle Ages until the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution:
Modern societies today reveal similar role patterns.
However, you
would expect this order to undergo considerable stress
given the nature
of globalization in an increasingly non-polar world
The only thing keeping it in place, perhaps, is
structures that provide
those in positions of sovereign power with first
access to information
and which at the same time conceal these processes
from public
scrutiny.
Let’s assume, shall we, that even these structures somehow
failed to
maintain the tripartite social order, resulting
perhaps in the
convergence of the three roles described above into a
singular role or
perspective, and thereby creating sufficient space for
two new role
perspectives to emerge.
Do you foresee this convergence as a possibility? If
so, what could
this new tripartite structure look like?
Cheers,
Chad
Chad Green, PMP
Program Analyst
Loudoun County Public Schools
21000 Education Court
Ashburn, VA 20148
Voice: 571-252-1486
Fax: 571-252-1633
Gavin Ritz garritz@XTRA.CO.NZ
4/26/2011 12:36 AM
(Gavin Ritz 2011.04.26.16.06NZT)
[From Rick Marken
(2011.04.25.2015)]
Chad Green (2011.04.25.1917 EDT)
cg: Thank you for the clarification, Rick. In that sense the
overall
message of PCT is reminiscent of the Platinum Rule:
"Treat others in
the way
they like to be treated."
I think the “message” of PCT is that you
can’t tell what a person is
doing by looking at what they are doing; so don’t jump
to conclusions
or infer intentions based on what you see people
doing.
And all along I thought they are controlling their
perceptions (or
internal
energies).
And because
people are intentional agents, there is always going
to be the
possibility of conflict.
It’s not a possibility; there will almost always be
conflict. Life is
conflict; in the animal kingdom it’s called the deadly
feast of life.
Conflict Management should be the new discipline.
In the human social affair, it’s luckily we don’t get
eaten
physically,
(anymore anyway, where I’m from it’s still a
possibility), but now it’s
a
mental battlefield. The concentrators vs. the
scatterers. Those that
want to
concentrate the energies and those that want to
scatter it.
So lighten up with those with whom you want
to get along and try to avoid those with whom you
don’t (or can’t).
Good advice.
Regards
Gavin