What is Socionic Questimity and Declatimity, Aristocracy and Democracy?
What is socionic QUESTIMITY?
(or how the tendency to speak with interrogative intonation is, to some extent, related to the instinct for self-preservation, as a remote consequence of that instinct)
Thus, the logical chain is approximately as follows:
Questimity is:
- questions
- doubts
- disagreement
- irritation
- disgust, rejection
- protest
- seeing and emphasizing differences between oneself and other people
- asserting one’s uniqueness
- “I am separate”
- individualism
- what has been gained through personal suffering
- a narrow range of what is acceptable to oneself
- avoidance of dirt, a desire to cleanse oneself of dirt
- avoidance of sick, potentially contagious people
- hypersensitivity to pain and discomfort
- self-preservation
What is socionic DECLATIMITY?
- answers
- confidence in being right
- agreement
- calmness, “thick-skinnedness”
- acceptance
- submission
- looking for similarities to oneself in others, rather than differences
- “I am like everyone else”
- “we are together”
- collectivism
- any propaganda
- lack of disgust toward vices and deformities
- lack of disgust toward dirt, willingness to work with dirt
- no fear of becoming infected
- no fear of pain, discomfort, or deprivation
- living for the collective good, readiness for self-sacrifice
What is socionic ARISTOCRACY?
- acceptance of top-down relationships (regardless of one’s role)
- seeking and establishing unequal relationships, especially - where they are not required
- delving into the past of one’s family, local homeland or country, seeking moral authorities in it
- the importance of ancestral ties - taking pride in them, wanting to be a worthy continuator of one’s ancestors’ work and a role model for one’s descendants
- emphasizing membership in military and professional dynasties (which provides a sense of connection to the history of one’s lineage, Di, and a sense of elite superiority, Qe)
- nationalism emphasizing the superior value of one’s nation’s traditional culture over any external influences
- mentioning God / gods and goddesses, angels, demons, etc. (often - as absolutized images of the founders of one’s lineage or past rulers of one’s people), while recognizing their priority in decision-making
- belief in conspiracy theories (in political and religious contexts)
- belief in fate and predestination, submission to fate (Di) and/or the desire to determine the fates of others (Qe)
What is socionic DEMOCRACY?
- rejection of existing hierarchies - acting while ignoring their existence
- rejection of the importance of seniority as a factor
- breaking away from ancestral roots for the sake of personal liberation and self-realization
- being oriented toward one’s personal future
- only each person’s personal, inner desires (Qi) and their fulfillment through interaction with others (De) are important
- emphasizing people’s individual successes
- struggling to make everyone equal in rights and initial opportunities
- meritocracy as the ideal of social organization
- internationalism, cosmopolitanism, willingness to form cross-border associations
- the value of global progress that removes obsolete restrictions from the past for the sake of survival in the future