I see patterns, but I do not do side shows.
The whole idea of Psychology is wrong, they see behaviors and never the underlying cause.
There is no one truth to humans, there are lots of truths.
This thread is very INTP. That works on the universe, but not on the other fifteen major types.
INTP is only a marker, and fits 1%, but this sector of the circle of thought is still alien to most.
ENTP brings the group up to 6%, and it is systems and things over people.
This node sees most humans as space fillers, and most humans see them as uncaring, strange, with the potential to change everything. One Universal Truth can mess up a lot of long standing human systems.
Humans, the mass called NT here, base their whole life on relationships, "It is not what you know, but who you know."
They may well see the same pictures, systems, but shut that out, because networking by mimicing the behavior of the group they wish to be members of is of greater importance.
For most, social relationships are their best move. They will join the right church, political party, and have the same views as the local factory owner, because they need that factory job.
"It is obvious you will not survive by wits alone." Dilbert
For the what you know set, a simple study of industrial history shows that technology has a short life, and that the factory is near the end of it's. So they think of what will replace it. They position themselves in the path of the future.
They are famous for their lack of attachment for the past, their own time, I mean, "Yesterdays Gone!"
At midnight the day becomes history.
Now and future oriented. Based on verifieable universal truths.
When it comes to, what would other people think? I live by the immortal words, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
I have been following a few emerging patterns. One is the Markram's Intense World view of autism. Everyone suffers from Intense World, the watershed is, the autistic turn within to special interests, and the rest turn outward to hyper socialization.
It fits the things and facts over people model. It is not Psychology, or even Neurology, it is a world view and value system.
Aliens have landed, they are attacking groups of people and eating them, lets hold a big meeting and figure out what to do. My first thought is Alien lunch, my second is with that much food their ships will not be well guarded.
We hold these truths to be self evident, when you break a Law of Nature, you are dead.
I have to stay with my truths, for anything else is lacking a pattern I can function in. I cannot Socialize More, accept the views of the largest group, or make myself acceptable to others. I equate it to learning the names of all six billion people, and getting the permission of each to be myself. I do not know the names of my neighbors, but if someone wrote a book a few hundred years ago, I know them.
My relationship with this planet seems to be with it's history, and it's future. The rest is of little interest.
I have patented things, but hold most as secrets now, and I do write books. I am finally getting around to publishing, but my chosen market is the next few hundred years. In my life most of my best friends and teachers died hundreds to thousands of years ago. They were all self educated.
My subject is how did this start, and how did it become like it is. I see two patterns, those who seek whole truths, and those who seek social relationships. They can work together, but most of history shows that they often get an imbalance that leads to things like the American Civil War, Genocidial Lemmings.
The recent view of the Social Model over all, labels thinkers as Autistic, and Social Relationships are never going to recover the American Economy. They ate the seed corn, then promised next year will be better.
I have noticed that people do not like me. But when nothing else works, and during disasters, they turn to me for answers. When everything works again, they return to not liking me.
They do have an awareness of my function, but I spoil their fun when they just want to play. As a past head of the Federal Reserve said, "Just when he party gets going, I am the guy who comes and takes away the punch bowl."
They want to spend everything on today, I spend everything on tomorrow.
I see structure. I keep running into my past. How did this perfectly functioning machine get here? I bought tomorrow. They also run into their past, when the credit card bill comes where they are still paying at 18% for a vacation they took three years ago.
The main character in my book has no idea what life is, where it is going, just that she will provide for the future, and is along for the ride. She lives today fully, and invests everything in tomorrow. It turns out well.
I had no idea where I was going. I just did what I do, and over time, it grew.
Warren Buffet described it, "First you climb the mountain, then throw away everything you have, in a snowball that rolls downhill, and gathers, the rest is just physics."
He still lives in the same house, his mother used to lay out his clothes every day, now his wife does, he is one of us.
So I am not buying Psychobabble. The mental views and social habits of the INTP, ENTP, do explain all.
I call it Applied Autism. Long ago it was summed up in a story about the Grasshopper and the Ant. The grasshopper played and ate through an endless summer, while the ant worked on investing in the future. The grasshoppers laughed at the ants, but after the first frost the ants came out and ate their dead bodies. The next year there were a new crop of rude grasshoppers.
I do not let grasshoppers define me, and WP is full of ants.
20 Oct 2009, 8:34 am
