Properties of Quadras, Anti-Quadras, and Their Combinations

Attention! What is described below is not the psychological qualities of an individual possessing the corresponding values, but rather the properties of a society formed by the synergy of the activities of many people, among whom representatives of the corresponding quadra/value group lead and set the general tone.

Beta - pure, without any admixtures

Main components:

• a militarized society exercising coercive rule
• the search for an external enemy, the cultivation of ressentiment as a motive for external aggression - war against the “infidels”
• the cultivation of the idea of collective greatness among the people
• a tendency to form a multilevel hierarchy in which those at the top possess enormous power
• power is sacralized and fused with a centralized cult
• the veneration of military heroes and leaders as an important part of the cult
• the sacrifice of heretics as an important part of the cult

Merry Decisiveness (Beta minus Delta)

Main components:

• the intensification of intolerance toward ideological opponents
• the spread of ideas about shortages of resources and living space
• young people form aggressive groups in which their own leaders emerge
• the spread of revolutionary sentiments
• the destruction of customary economic life, devastation, and the intensification of competition for the remaining resources

Decisive Aristocracy (Beta minus Alpha)

Main components:

• the ruling power cannot be replaced and harshly suppresses any possibility of replacing it
• a rigid social hierarchy that is impenetrable from the bottom upward
• clannishness, the fusion of power and organized crime (the mafia)
• governance is conducted secretly, information is censored, and ordinary people are often misled regarding the actual objectives of policy

Merry Aristocracy (Beta minus Gamma)

Main components:

• patriotism, love of one’s native land, the cult of ancestors
• adherence to the cultural tradition of one’s lineage even contrary to personal benefit
• support for the traditional model of society and the family, and opposition to nontraditional forms of relationships between people
• resistance to technological and cultural progress; progress is seen as bringing evil and, in general, as an occupation for ignoble people

Gamma (core quadra values)

Main components:

• a society in which the value of everything is not assigned voluntaristically but is determined through comparison in free markets (and everyone agrees with this)
• an urban way of life as a means of remaining closer to liquid markets
• monetary thinking, with money as the primary instrument for achieving personal freedom and well-being
• private ownership of land and the means of production
• an approving attitude toward using other people’s mistakes for personal ends - which encourages everyone to engage in constant self-improvement and makes society as a whole more adaptive under changing conditions
• lack of ideology, society’s inability to pursue project-based development (a “society-ecosystem” rather than a “society-integrated superorganism”)

Serious Decisiveness (Gamma minus Alpha)

Main components:

• down-to-earth self-interested pragmatism, venality, the ridicule of ideals
• a focus on personal enrichment even at the expense of the well-being of society as a whole
• a cynical conviction of one’s right to exploit other people’s inexperience and selflessness
• the cunning and dexterity of the schemer as the ideal of an intellectual person

Decisive Democracy (Gamma minus Delta)

Main components:

• a society with maximum differentiation among individuals in terms of the amount of property and opportunities they possess
• the cultivation of independence and “healthy egoism” in people
• the postulation of personal responsibility for choices made, including in legal practice
• an orientation in personal practice toward achieving long-term goals rather than preserving the status quo
• the open demonstration of one’s personal success, which destroys the “communal spirit” and stimulates career ambitions among other members of society as well

Serious Democracy (Gamma minus Beta)

Main components:

• the values of individual emancipation, separation from ancestral roots, and escape from the control of the authorities of one’s native society
• the values of cosmopolitanism, a willingness to become a migrant and change one’s identity in a new place in pursuit of one’s economic interests
• the absence of xenophobia and a willingness (again, in pursuit of one’s economic interests) to accept migrants and enter mutually beneficial alliances regardless of the partners’ class, cultural, or racial origins
• the acceleration of social and, to some extent, technological progress as a consequence of free contact between cultures and individual creative personalities

Anti-Beta (Judicious Serious Democracy)

Main components:

• a grassroots society with developed horizontal connections that prefers to solve problems at “round tables” (postulating the equality of the opinions and interests of all participants)
• the government performs exclusively service functions and is elected from the bottom upward
• pacifism, the desacralization of collective violence, and an attitude toward war as a form of collective insanity
• the cultivation of an individualized approach to people and respect for each person’s individuality
• humanism - care for the weak, disabled people, deviants, and minorities
• the mitigation of criminal punishments and an aspiration to reeducate and rehabilitate those who have broken the law
• weakness - an inability to resist well-organized external aggression directed from a single center

Anti-Gamma (Judicious Merry Aristocracy)

Main components:

• a society in which sacred values exist
• upbringing in the spirit of selfless service to the collective (global) good
• a worldview in which the image of God and his prophets, spiritual teachers, and saints occupies the central position
• collective (temple) property
• adherence to what is prescribed in sacred books and an unwillingness to act otherwise, even when doing so promises certain benefits
• belief in retribution (often - after death) and a just world
• weakness: lack of competitiveness in the market

Anti-Delta (Decisive Merry Democracy)

Main components:

• a society in a phase of turbulence, global crisis, and transformation from one state into another, in which the interests of numerous individuals who have fallen out of the previous system and are chaotically rushing about in search of a new place to live collide
• emotionally vivid events - global changes that shake up the world
• the destabilization of the collective psyche, an increase in the proportion of psychopaths in society who engage in lawlessness and thereby intensify the general chaos
• conflict between fathers and children - the new generation, inspired by the opportunities that have opened up and realizing that what worked for their parents no longer works, separates from the parental family at an early age and sets off into “free navigation” in search of adventure and personal fortune
• weakness: the radical simplification of social life and the loss of useful traditions

Anti-Alpha (Decisive Serious Aristocracy)

Main components:

• closed communities that do not allow their members to enter the outside world
• the cultivation of the belief that the wider outside world is organized incorrectly and that only life within the community and according to its rules is correct, so that “there is no point in escaping”
• the cultivation of an emotionally dry nature and an attitude toward all outsiders as objects and livestock, without any sympathy
• a prohibition on the search for truths, mechanical memorization and drilling of the same material without any attempt at understanding
• the rigid and systematic defense of the community’s interests and the installation of “their own” people everywhere
• advanced “brainwashing” technologies based on identifying and exploiting the individual weaknesses of a particular person, which work to divide (not unite!) individuals.
• weakness: the accumulation of mistaken beliefs about the world as a consequence of isolation from it

Serious Judiciousness (Delta minus Beta)

Main components:

• training in tolerance, moderation, and the ability to be satisfied with little
• everyone should cultivate their own plot of land well rather than dream of global greatness
• an emphasis on consumer abundance - “a well-fed person cannot be evil”
• a policy of appeasing the aggressor
• aggressive impulses are sublimated and neutralized through entertainment

Judicious Aristocracy (Delta minus Gamma)

Main components:

• the cultivation of altruism, collective solidarity, and responsibility for others
• the avoidance of personal initiative and a desire to secure the support of close people before doing anything
• a striving for equality - no one should stand out excessively, provoking unhealthy envy in others or apathy arising from a sense of their own inferiority
• “no one should be alone; everyone should be under care and protection”
• high taxes and a developed pension system
• stability is more important than progress and the existence of future prospects; everything new must be tested to determine whether it can cause harm before being introduced
• a positive perception of the world formed through conscious self-isolation from everything unpleasant (situations, thoughts, people)

Serious Aristocracy (Delta minus Alpha)

Main components:

• the avoidance of bringing problematic subjects into the open, “sweeping them under the rug” in order to preserve collective calm, including political correctness
• a lack of interest in the fate of the world, with the individual’s interests concentrated within their immediate surroundings
• a lack of interest in any global theoretical knowledge and a preference for perfecting small, practically useful details
• the cultivation of an emotionally even, restrained, serious nature
• a tendency toward social mimicry and the display of socially desirable views and reactions

Delta (core quadra values)

Main components:

• a society striving for ecological equilibrium, closing in on itself and thereby avoiding crisis situations
• a striving for self-preservation - the avoidance of everything risky and potentially dangerous
• a striving to improve quality of life by removing everything disturbing and stressful from it
• restraining oneself and others from sudden movements that could potentially cause injury and from excessive emotional reactions - shouting, swearing, fighting, etc.
• restraining oneself and others from thoughts capable of causing dissatisfaction with life and the global organization of the world
• the cultivation of conformity rather than narcissism

Merry Judiciousness (Alpha minus Gamma)

Main components:

• idealism, selflessness, indifference to money, an inability to demand anything for oneself or monitor one’s personal interests
• an inability to examine the intentions of particular other people and implicitly read their personalities
• low confidence in the possibility of achieving personal success, preparing through one’s own activity for the success of one’s children, students, followers, and like-minded associates
• the search for truth in order to share it with everyone
• the absence of a tendency toward covert control

Judicious Democracy (Alpha minus Beta)

Main components:

• democracy - the government can be replaced, is transparent to observation, and does not engage in intimidation or unlawful violence against citizens
• an unwillingness to restrict or coerce anyone, rejection of disciplinary control and of the self-control imposed through disciplinary upbringing
• intolerance of unfreedom in the global sense (not merely personal unfreedom)
• internationalism, the absence of a division between one’s own people who must be protected and undesirable outsiders
• sympathy for the weak and “low-ranking”
• indifference toward titles, regalia, and rituals for displaying them
• being infected by the positivity of others (rather than becoming irritated by it)
• an attraction to life (in the global, suprapersonal sense) and the absence of an attraction to death

Merry Democracy (Alpha minus Delta)

Main components:

• enthusiasm toward everything new
• curiosity and interest in ideas that do not provide quick and immediate rewards but promise exciting prospects
• a love of systematization and of constructing and organizing a unified picture of the world
• an inability to tolerate and adapt while pretending to agree
• emotional excessiveness, lack of restraint, verbosity, and a desire to spread one’s opinion among other people through persuasion

Alpha (pure)

Main components:

• sincerity, frankness, openness, and an inability and unwillingness to intrigue, ingratiate oneself, or extract anything from people through deception and flattery
• a society that encourages free creativity in people and reveals their natural individuality, authenticity, and nature
• internal emotionality
• the cultivation of trustfulness and the perception of others as friends
• a love of paradoxes, jokes, and thinking that goes beyond the generally accepted understanding of things, including scientific thinking
• a failure to distinguish between the imaginary and the real in terms of emotional reactions, perceiving the imaginary as real (and thereby turning it into reality)
• a striving to share everything with everyone - both one’s joy and one’s problems, seeking help in the global world and being willing to provide help, merging one’s personal fate with the fates of the world