What it is ain’t exactly clear, so I’m hoping that the experts in collective control can help me out here. What seems to me going on in the USA at the present time is some serious social conflict. The conflict seems to be over the type of society people want to live in. Different groups of people seem to be controlling for two rather different system concepts – concepts of the type of society they want to live in; one system concept could be called “democracy” and the other “fascism”. Of course, there is variation across people in what these two concepts describe, but it seems that these two words get at the “centroid” of the variation in these two different system concept perceptions.
This conflict doesn’t seem to be producing the kind of social stability that is supposed to result from collective control of the same variable (type of society) relative to different references (“democracy” versus “fascism”). So what’s going on here, from a PCT perspective?
Best, Rick