| quadra values | ”judiciousness” - peacefulness and cooperativeness | ”decisiveness” - forcing competition | ”decisiveness” - forcing competition | ”judiciousness” - peacefulness and cooperativeness |
| ”merriness” - the heroism of the transpersonal meanings of life | ”merriness” - the heroism of the transpersonal meanings of life | ”seriousness” - the pragmatics of personal interests | ”seriousness” - the pragmatics of personal interests |
| ”democratism” - the erasure of social boundaries | ”aristocratism” - strengthening social boundaries | ”democratism” - the erasure of social boundaries | ”aristocratism” - strengthening social boundaries |
| understanding people | ”All people are children who need emotional acceptance and true knowledge to develop their abilities." | "All people are teenagers who need organizing will and inspiring ideas to conquest living space." | "All people are adults who need a good reputation and money for personal fulfillment." | "All people are elderly and need an ergonomic environment and respect for their life experience to improve their quality of life.” |
| understanding happiness | happiness in returning to nature | happiness in serving great goals | happiness in personal independence | happiness in a quiet life |
| priorities | for free naturalness, against tyranny and obscurantism | for collective strength and greatness, against liberalism and democracy | for private property, against communitarism and communism | for maintaining balance, against radicalism and revolutions |
| declaration of rights | protecting the rights of the weak to free access to information | protection of the right of the majority to exercise its power | protecting the right of the powerful to free enterprise | protection of the rights of minorities to lead their customary way of life |
| goal | equality of opportunity | equality of opportunity | inequality of results | equality of results |
| primary method of influence | intellectual enlightenment (opening up the big world) | physical violence/threat of violence (establishing hierarchy) | economic exploitation (giving an understanding of the need for self-improvement) | labor education (instilling respect for the work of others, experience, and traditions) |
| point of application | against hypocrisy (leading to a negative selection of elites and, as a consequence, the inadequacy of society in the face of global challenges) | against dissent (leading to the undermining of authority, and as a consequence, to the weakening of the existing system of hierarchy) | against altruism (which leads to the encouragement of personal inefficiency and increases the volume of social parasitism) | against psychopathy and, more broadly, any maladaptation (the very presence of which creates instability and thus a threat to the established status quo) |
| relationship to others | recognition of the right of others to similarity; globalization as a consequence of a disinterested interest in questions of existence common to all | non-recognition of the right of others to similarity; xenophobia and isolationism as a reaction to differences between groups | non-recognition of the right of others to be different; globalization and universalization of lifestyles under economic coercion | recognition of the right of others to be different; tolerance and political correctness as a reaction to group differences |
| promotion of interests… | humanity as a intelligent species | the state and the ideological egregor it generates | egoistic individuals | small groups (communities, workshops, dynasties) |
| ideology | International cosmism: merging with the destiny of humanity, preventing conflicts that threaten global survival through the disclosure of truths and the exchange of something meaningful with the other side | Great-power chauvinism (in the form of nationalism or statism): merging with the fate of the nation-forming state, escalating conflicts for the sake of global dominance | Cosmopolitan individualism: the exit of an individual from the social environment that gave birth to him (separation from ancestral roots, emancipation, urbanization), the use of conflicts for personal enrichment | Pacifist multiculturalism: maintaining a familiar environment and way of life, avoiding conflicts that threaten personal survival through hushing up an inconvenient truths and concessions to the other side |
| result | intellectualization of nature (through generational change) | concentration and sacralization of power (through wars) | privatization of capital (through economic crises) | humanization of material culture (through the extension of individual lives) |