Thought Context
Where do society and core beliefs exist?
Previously we introduced and defined: a system, a society, and core beliefs. In this section we'll introduce tools to help us more fully understand and connect concepts in general. And we'll specifically use these tools to first comprehend a system, a society, and core beliefs, simultaneously as separate components and as interconnected concepts.
None of the tools or models we're using are perfect, nor are they meant to be perfect. However, they are USE+FULL to help us get a clearer idea and understanding of WHERE society and core beliefs exist. When we understood WHERE society and core beliefs exist, we took the first and most important step to identifying our core beliefs.
Previously we introduced and defined: a system, a society, and core beliefs. In this section we'll introduce tools to help us more fully understand and connect concepts in general. And we'll specifically use these tools to first comprehend a system, a society, and core beliefs, simultaneously as separate components and as interconnected concepts.
None of the tools or models we're using are perfect, nor are they meant to be perfect. However, they are USE+FULL to help us get a clearer idea and understanding of WHERE society and core beliefs exist. When we understood WHERE society and core beliefs exist, we took the first and most important step to identifying our core beliefs.
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A system is an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent elements (components, entities, factors, members, parts, etc.), continually influencing one another (directly or indirectly), maintaining their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the system.
- organization: an arrangement into a structured whole
- interrelated and interdependent: two or more things related, connected, and dependent on each other.
- continually influencing: repeatedly and constantly having an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something
Re+Phrase
An example of a system, is a large social grouping of interdependent members, continually influencing one another to maintain the dominant cultural expectations. A large social grouping of interdependent members is sometimes called a society.
The Power of Coding
Power: 1) the ability to do something or act in a particular way 2) the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events
Coding: 1) the process of assigning a code to something for the purposes of classification or identification. 2) convert (the words of a message) into a particular code in order to convey a secret meaning 3) (nuero+chemistry) specify the literal sequence for (a culture or society) |
Coding creates word
Coding creates stories
Coding creates language
Coding creates stories
Coding creates language
Every society is a system.
Every societal system is an organization of interacting and interdependent members,
continually influencing one another (directly or indirectly), maintaining their activity
and the existence of the society, in order to achieve the goal of the society.
Correspondence
In this Tree Analogy we compare a society to a tree. As mentioned earlier no model is perfect, still--an analogy allows us to look at what we know about two things, and learn more about one of those things we may not know as well. Here we're looking at how a society operates compared to a tree to get insight into an earlier question what is a society? Some essential similarities:
Trees can lose their leaves, branches can fall off, the trunk can be snapped in half, and the tree can still manage to survive. But there is one part that is absolutely essential to the tree's survival--the roots. If a tree is uprooted and it's roots destroyed, that particular tree will die. If a seed of a different species were to take root in that spot, the former tree would have no space to return.
Societies have had leaders assassinated, buildings destroyed, economical and government collapse, wars, coups, revolutions, famines, epidemics, yet somehow the society still manages to survive and grow again.
What part(s) are absolutely essential to a society's survival? What would equate as the seed and core root of a society? If that core root is found, how could it be uprooted? If it was uprooted, would it die like the uprooted tree? And how would a seed of a different society take root, so that the former wouldn't have space to return?
Responses to the first two questions are available if you continue scrolling, which also answers WHERE do society and core beliefs exist.
- Both are systems subject to universal systems. (physics, geology, ecology, etc)
- Both are living systems growing, evolving, protecting, and perpetuating themselves.
- Both can survive in many different places if the proper conditions exist.
- Both have different parts playing different roles all dependent on each other to survive and thrive.
Trees can lose their leaves, branches can fall off, the trunk can be snapped in half, and the tree can still manage to survive. But there is one part that is absolutely essential to the tree's survival--the roots. If a tree is uprooted and it's roots destroyed, that particular tree will die. If a seed of a different species were to take root in that spot, the former tree would have no space to return.
Societies have had leaders assassinated, buildings destroyed, economical and government collapse, wars, coups, revolutions, famines, epidemics, yet somehow the society still manages to survive and grow again.
What part(s) are absolutely essential to a society's survival? What would equate as the seed and core root of a society? If that core root is found, how could it be uprooted? If it was uprooted, would it die like the uprooted tree? And how would a seed of a different society take root, so that the former wouldn't have space to return?
Responses to the first two questions are available if you continue scrolling, which also answers WHERE do society and core beliefs exist.
Every society is being it's beliefs.
Every societal system (in any phase of it's being or expression)
and the beliefs of that societal system, mutually create and reinforce each other.
Ebb & Flow
Ebb-Flow: conveys 1) how what seems to be opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent, 2) how two or more things give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another, and/or 3) how two or more things continuously give way to one another.
Conventionally known as Yin-Yang |
Ebb & Flow give us the ability to see holistically, rather than linearly. It gives us the ability to see and understand how two things mutually and simultaneously create and re+create each other. For example, which came first, the roots or the fruits? The seeds or the leaves? The chicken or the egg?
Ebb & Flow removes the riddle. The proper response is they came together. They mutually and simultaneously created each other.
To understand this idea, if you find yourself struggling with it, you have to let go of an ideal. You have to let go of the ideal that everything happens isolated in a nice-neat, observable and measurable, static, step-by-step, linear-sequential-order. The reality is all life operates in a dynamic interconnected-interdependent-interactive feedback complex, operating in a constant state of ebb and flow.
What's the equivalent for a society? What does a society create, while mutually and simultaneously, being created by? We don't have THE answer. We offer a response and our reasoning.
This '<==>' symbol represents ebb & flow, mutual and simultaneous creation:
If we continue from this line of reasoning then:
What came first the roots or the fruits? The seeds or the leaves? A society's way of being or it's beliefs?
Ebb & Flow removes the riddle. The proper response is they came together. They mutually and simultaneously created each other.
To understand this idea, if you find yourself struggling with it, you have to let go of an ideal. You have to let go of the ideal that everything happens isolated in a nice-neat, observable and measurable, static, step-by-step, linear-sequential-order. The reality is all life operates in a dynamic interconnected-interdependent-interactive feedback complex, operating in a constant state of ebb and flow.
What's the equivalent for a society? What does a society create, while mutually and simultaneously, being created by? We don't have THE answer. We offer a response and our reasoning.
This '<==>' symbol represents ebb & flow, mutual and simultaneous creation:
- (Who eye am, as an individual) <==> (Who eye am being, as an individual)
- (Who eye am being, as an individual) <==> (What eye believe, as an individual)
If we continue from this line of reasoning then:
- (Who we are, as a society) <==> (Who we are being, as a society)
- Who we are being, as a society) <==> (What we believe, as a society)
What came first the roots or the fruits? The seeds or the leaves? A society's way of being or it's beliefs?
Every part of a society has the same beliefs at it's essence.
The beliefs held in common, at the essence of every part of a society, can be referred to as core beliefs.
The core beliefs of any societal system are ideas and thoughts embedded and rooted
deep within the mental being of every part, or individual member, of that society.
Core Connected Circles
Venn Diagram: a diagram representing mathematical or logical sets pictorially as circles or closed curves within an enclosing rectangle, the universal set, the common elements of the sets being represented by the areas of overlap among the circles, the core.
Conventionally known as Venn Diagram |
Core Connected Circles allow us to see something as a whole, in it's parts, and interactions, simultaneously. The circles give us a still shot to some otherwise constantly moving complex, operating in a dynamic interconnected-interdependent-interactive fashion. And finally the core that forms where the circles connect, reveals the source, the basic fundamentals, that direct every part of that entire system.
A tree, with it's DNA at the core of every cell on every part of that tree, follows the same principle. As does mostly every living organism.
DNA for those who don't know, refers to deoxyribonucleic acid, 'a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.' It also refers to 'the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something.'
Every society has it's own DNA. We refer to it as core beliefs. DNA is to an individual's physical characteristics and expression what core beliefs are to a society's collective cultural character and expression.
In other words, where DNA is the core programming of an individuals physical appearance and abilities, core beliefs is the main programming behind:
HOW we think, is like a filter for WHAT we think. If we think a certain way that effects what ideas get in and how things are interpreted. Which we cover next in Thought Process.
A tree, with it's DNA at the core of every cell on every part of that tree, follows the same principle. As does mostly every living organism.
DNA for those who don't know, refers to deoxyribonucleic acid, 'a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.' It also refers to 'the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something.'
Every society has it's own DNA. We refer to it as core beliefs. DNA is to an individual's physical characteristics and expression what core beliefs are to a society's collective cultural character and expression.
In other words, where DNA is the core programming of an individuals physical appearance and abilities, core beliefs is the main programming behind:
- where we live, how we live
- what we do, how we do it,
- who and what we idolize and idealize,
- what clothes we wear, if we wear clothes at all,
- what we say, what we don't say, how we say things literally, verbally, physically, explicitly, or implicitly
- more importantly, what we think,
- and perhaps most important of all, how we think
HOW we think, is like a filter for WHAT we think. If we think a certain way that effects what ideas get in and how things are interpreted. Which we cover next in Thought Process.
Thought ProcessHOW are core beliefs instilled?
HOW are core beliefs re+created? |
Thought ContentHOW are core beliefs identified?
HOW are core beliefs distilled? |