Fi/Te, Royalty, Nationalism and the American Dream
May 6, 2017 23:22:36 GMT -5 by Auburn
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Post by Auburn on May 6, 2017 23:22:36 GMT -5
This was gonna be titled "Fairies, Kings and the American Dream" but I felt I should try to be less cryptic. Still I won't be able to write this article without stepping into the intuitive domain, so I apologize in advanced for speaking somewhat cryptically.
What are, in the most common forms, slight differences in temperament and personality, exist as part of a far greater contrast and drama that spans ideologically across the ages, and whose core motivators rise out of our primordial human nature. And as Jung well understood, the temperamental differences innate to humanity would be an essential and visible component to our record of history; the macro scale being a representation of the dramas found at the individual level. It is no mystery then that we should see Ale (Fe/Ti) and Eda (Te/Fi) clashing through aeons and forming, at different levels of refinements, systems suited to their ideological bias.
Studying Evola, Churchill, Trump, Thatcher, Rand, a slew of other Te types as well as Western thought/philosophy in general, something has condensed into understanding for me.
America: Highways, Real Estate, Capitalism
I was having a discussion with an architect friend of mine (Kuu) who is a Mexican NiFe-Ti, who is very displeased at the way America handles their architecture/infrastructure. He told me Americans have a kind of tunnel vision about what is normal when it comes to design, as most other European and developed countries do not have suburbs the way USA does. Other places have a lot more public spaces, far less private spaces or houses, more closely knit roads and infrastructure. He says the popularization of suburban areas is an American invention largely due to real estate marketing schemes, and is not economically efficient or really seen anywhere else.
And that this is also the origin of America's obsession with the car and the private ownership of vehicles. Without suburbs, there would be no need for every person to have their own car because they wouldn't have a home so far away. So there is, in Kuu's mind, a kind of domino effect where the American lifestyle is defined by the thirst for luxury real estate and private property -- which everyone wants, causing the growth of suburbs, causing an excess of vehicles, and causing a great deal of mortgages/loans.
In typical NiFe contentious visionary fashion, he argues that Bernaysian propaganda tactics have lead to the fabrication of desires in Americans for these luxury items which essentially makes them wage slaves (loans, car payments, mortgages) for the rest of their miserable lives. Essentially, he believe the "American Dream" is a scam designed to create economic slaves to big banks and corporations.
I argued saying that at least part of the American philosophy is due to the higher representation of Te/Fi in the population, and that I didn't really see those Te/Fi users having a problem with being busybodies. I told him that from my experience, Americans are perfectly content being busybodies if they can have their own house/car/wife somewhere in their own land -- and that it didn't seem like slavery (which denotes a type of suffering) as much as just a different modality.
Conservatism
Segwaying onto a different topic, I wanted to describe the Te/Fi modus operandi in more detail. As we find in Rand's Objectivism, Evola's Absolute Individual, and in patterns of nationalism, the Te/Fi oscillation as a unit wishes to have boundaries between oneself and other individuals, and a conservation of one's individual rights.
This is as much a result of Te as it is Fi. The way Fi conceives of living things is as having their own life force and sacredness. And there is no desire to change that, only to preserve it (or destroy it). And in order to preserve that, for every creature, you have to allow for differences and discord. So a typical Fi ideal to come out of this is one where there is still conflict, still borders, still differences, but it's coexistent. Hence, Fi/Te tends to be more pro-privacy and personal liberties, and anti-socialism or globalism.
Fi:
Fi's perspective creates subjective, somatic compulsions/repulsions regarding the preservation of personal life, integrity, autonomy and liberties. Inversely, Fe's perspective seeks alignment with a universally just and true morality, or an ordering of society most optimally suited toward everyone's life needs and well-being. But Fi may be in such disagreement to Fe's way of doing things, that it may actually be repulsed by the proposition that ethical truth can be defined any way but personally/individually. And all we need the gov. to do is give us order. The American slogan of "Freedom" is an allusion to this ultimately Libertarian (when at its extreme) idealism.
Te:
And when it comes to managing the exterior, it becomes about doing it in such a way as to preserve the Fi impetus and sacredness. And so the objective world's service to the self becomes very physical; primarily a logistical tool for somatic security, financial security, and production of goods. Laissez-faire capitalism ties nicely into the Te/Fi philosophy, as a result. But as a function pair, Te also carries its own motives. As a Je function, it is driven and is not entirely dispassionate (despite being T, as noted in the book). So there is in the Te/Fi oscillation also a compulsion towards the accumulation of power through logistical means.
Disney Princesses and Kings
The myths that originally came from Britain, and which have taken new forms in the States, still carry within them the signature of Te/Fi folklore. They continue to capture the imagination of the population because it resonates with the population's unconscious mythical storyline. We see, for example, a wholly different mythology (both contemporary and past) in East Asian cultures.
The story of the Disney princess, and the effects it has on the population, should not be underestimated. One could say they represent the unconscious, popular myth of attaining everything desired. If we are to take the nature of this mythical landscape as any indicator of the motivating force behind both the American Dream, the desire for Freedom, and nationalism, then we soon discover what's at the source.
Royalty & Kingdom
And that's when things started connecting.
Te/Fi has an ideology that inescapably emerges from it when taken to its extreme. Or, one could say, it is what the primordial desire looks like, as channeled through Eda; it's something i can only describe as the myth of royalty. Another way to say it is the myth of king-hood. In any event, it is the imagination that one can live a life neatly at the center of one's domain of security, where one rules this domain according to a personally held ethical compass.
And this I suspect is part of why the UK, despite the change in times, remains a Kingdom. Not unsurprisingly, a place with a demographic lean toward Te/Fi.
The American fixation on having one's own private real estate, one's own fancy car, picket fence, and one's own command over that space is no different from the desire to be a count. It's essentially identical in motivation to having one's own territory, one's own chariot and place of political power. Suburbs have gotten broader in the USA to accommodate this culture-wide desire for private property. Every count has his own chariot.
Capitalism remains predominant over socialistic policies because, although slight, the ideology is tilted in favor of Eda; freedom rather than interdependence. Nationalism, in the form of Trump, re-emerges because despite efforts by the Fe idealistic architecture to advocate globalization, the American spirit came from a different ideology which is still stronger than many think. Trump is king now. And his rise to power was due to the simple fact that what Edan people want of a King is protection. And for that he is an adequate king.
What are, in the most common forms, slight differences in temperament and personality, exist as part of a far greater contrast and drama that spans ideologically across the ages, and whose core motivators rise out of our primordial human nature. And as Jung well understood, the temperamental differences innate to humanity would be an essential and visible component to our record of history; the macro scale being a representation of the dramas found at the individual level. It is no mystery then that we should see Ale (Fe/Ti) and Eda (Te/Fi) clashing through aeons and forming, at different levels of refinements, systems suited to their ideological bias.
Studying Evola, Churchill, Trump, Thatcher, Rand, a slew of other Te types as well as Western thought/philosophy in general, something has condensed into understanding for me.
America: Highways, Real Estate, Capitalism
I was having a discussion with an architect friend of mine (Kuu) who is a Mexican NiFe-Ti, who is very displeased at the way America handles their architecture/infrastructure. He told me Americans have a kind of tunnel vision about what is normal when it comes to design, as most other European and developed countries do not have suburbs the way USA does. Other places have a lot more public spaces, far less private spaces or houses, more closely knit roads and infrastructure. He says the popularization of suburban areas is an American invention largely due to real estate marketing schemes, and is not economically efficient or really seen anywhere else.
And that this is also the origin of America's obsession with the car and the private ownership of vehicles. Without suburbs, there would be no need for every person to have their own car because they wouldn't have a home so far away. So there is, in Kuu's mind, a kind of domino effect where the American lifestyle is defined by the thirst for luxury real estate and private property -- which everyone wants, causing the growth of suburbs, causing an excess of vehicles, and causing a great deal of mortgages/loans.
In typical NiFe contentious visionary fashion, he argues that Bernaysian propaganda tactics have lead to the fabrication of desires in Americans for these luxury items which essentially makes them wage slaves (loans, car payments, mortgages) for the rest of their miserable lives. Essentially, he believe the "American Dream" is a scam designed to create economic slaves to big banks and corporations.
I argued saying that at least part of the American philosophy is due to the higher representation of Te/Fi in the population, and that I didn't really see those Te/Fi users having a problem with being busybodies. I told him that from my experience, Americans are perfectly content being busybodies if they can have their own house/car/wife somewhere in their own land -- and that it didn't seem like slavery (which denotes a type of suffering) as much as just a different modality.
Conservatism
Segwaying onto a different topic, I wanted to describe the Te/Fi modus operandi in more detail. As we find in Rand's Objectivism, Evola's Absolute Individual, and in patterns of nationalism, the Te/Fi oscillation as a unit wishes to have boundaries between oneself and other individuals, and a conservation of one's individual rights.
This is as much a result of Te as it is Fi. The way Fi conceives of living things is as having their own life force and sacredness. And there is no desire to change that, only to preserve it (or destroy it). And in order to preserve that, for every creature, you have to allow for differences and discord. So a typical Fi ideal to come out of this is one where there is still conflict, still borders, still differences, but it's coexistent. Hence, Fi/Te tends to be more pro-privacy and personal liberties, and anti-socialism or globalism.
Fi:
Fi's perspective creates subjective, somatic compulsions/repulsions regarding the preservation of personal life, integrity, autonomy and liberties. Inversely, Fe's perspective seeks alignment with a universally just and true morality, or an ordering of society most optimally suited toward everyone's life needs and well-being. But Fi may be in such disagreement to Fe's way of doing things, that it may actually be repulsed by the proposition that ethical truth can be defined any way but personally/individually. And all we need the gov. to do is give us order. The American slogan of "Freedom" is an allusion to this ultimately Libertarian (when at its extreme) idealism.
Te:
And when it comes to managing the exterior, it becomes about doing it in such a way as to preserve the Fi impetus and sacredness. And so the objective world's service to the self becomes very physical; primarily a logistical tool for somatic security, financial security, and production of goods. Laissez-faire capitalism ties nicely into the Te/Fi philosophy, as a result. But as a function pair, Te also carries its own motives. As a Je function, it is driven and is not entirely dispassionate (despite being T, as noted in the book). So there is in the Te/Fi oscillation also a compulsion towards the accumulation of power through logistical means.
Disney Princesses and Kings
The myths that originally came from Britain, and which have taken new forms in the States, still carry within them the signature of Te/Fi folklore. They continue to capture the imagination of the population because it resonates with the population's unconscious mythical storyline. We see, for example, a wholly different mythology (both contemporary and past) in East Asian cultures.
The story of the Disney princess, and the effects it has on the population, should not be underestimated. One could say they represent the unconscious, popular myth of attaining everything desired. If we are to take the nature of this mythical landscape as any indicator of the motivating force behind both the American Dream, the desire for Freedom, and nationalism, then we soon discover what's at the source.
Royalty & Kingdom
And that's when things started connecting.
Te/Fi has an ideology that inescapably emerges from it when taken to its extreme. Or, one could say, it is what the primordial desire looks like, as channeled through Eda; it's something i can only describe as the myth of royalty. Another way to say it is the myth of king-hood. In any event, it is the imagination that one can live a life neatly at the center of one's domain of security, where one rules this domain according to a personally held ethical compass.
And this I suspect is part of why the UK, despite the change in times, remains a Kingdom. Not unsurprisingly, a place with a demographic lean toward Te/Fi.
The American fixation on having one's own private real estate, one's own fancy car, picket fence, and one's own command over that space is no different from the desire to be a count. It's essentially identical in motivation to having one's own territory, one's own chariot and place of political power. Suburbs have gotten broader in the USA to accommodate this culture-wide desire for private property. Every count has his own chariot.
Capitalism remains predominant over socialistic policies because, although slight, the ideology is tilted in favor of Eda; freedom rather than interdependence. Nationalism, in the form of Trump, re-emerges because despite efforts by the Fe idealistic architecture to advocate globalization, the American spirit came from a different ideology which is still stronger than many think. Trump is king now. And his rise to power was due to the simple fact that what Edan people want of a King is protection. And for that he is an adequate king.