Tools
There are many ways to conceptualize the mechanisms of how beliefs get instilled in members of a society. The recurring devices you will see through out this work are the tree model, ebb-flow, and venn diagram. These help to understand how we become who we are and how any society instill it's beliefs in it's members.
In the previous section you saw some definitions for system, society, and core beliefs. In this section you will see different tools to help visualize a central concept to this work: a society is a system, and at its core root is the society's beliefs.
In the previous section you saw some definitions for system, society, and core beliefs. In this section you will see different tools to help visualize a central concept to this work: a society is a system, and at its core root is the society's beliefs.
Tree Analogy
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Tree: 1) a thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree. 2) a diagram with a structure of branching connecting lines, representing different processes and relationships.
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A tree is a living system. The tree analogy allows us to take the nebulous concept of society and culture and give it a more tangible concrete form that we can analyze to give us a better understanding of a societal system.
A system is an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent elements continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the system. A body is an example of an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent organs continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the body, in order to achieve the goal of the body.
A tree and a society are an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent parts continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the tree or society.
A system is an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent elements continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the system. A body is an example of an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent organs continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the body, in order to achieve the goal of the body.
A tree and a society are an organization that consists of interrelated and interdependent parts continually influencing one another, maintaining their activity and the existence of the system, in order to achieve the goal of the tree or society.
Ebb & Flow
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Ebb-Flow: describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
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Ebb & Flow give us the ability to see non-linearly, non-hierarchically, it gives us the ability to see and appreciate that often two seemingly different things can simultaneously create and continuously re+create each other.
A society is group involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same principle authority and dominant cultural expectations. In other words, society is a group of individuals, interconnected, and interdependent giving rise to each other, continually influencing each other, as they continually
interrelate to one another.
A tree and a society are a collection of parts, interconnected and interdependent, giving rise to each other as they continually interrelate to one another. A society continually influences it's individual members and it's individual members continually influence the collective. Which came first, the roots, or the fruit?
A society is group involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same principle authority and dominant cultural expectations. In other words, society is a group of individuals, interconnected, and interdependent giving rise to each other, continually influencing each other, as they continually
interrelate to one another.
A tree and a society are a collection of parts, interconnected and interdependent, giving rise to each other as they continually interrelate to one another. A society continually influences it's individual members and it's individual members continually influence the collective. Which came first, the roots, or the fruit?
Venn Diagram
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Venn Diagram: a diagram representing mathematical or logical sets pictorially as circles or closed curves within an enclosing rectangle (the universal set), common elements of the sets being represented by the areas of overlap among the circles.
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Everything exists in a relationship with something else. Nothing exists isolated in a vacuum. A venn diagram allows us to look at parts while simultaneously keeping a bigger picture in mind. A single part is connected to many other parts and all these different parts have a few things in common, creating a core, the universal set.
Core beliefs are principal principles, propositions, ideas, accepted as true. They are the very essence of how one sees the past, present, future, the surroundings, other beings, and themselves.
A tree and a society have parts large and small that overlap. The area where all parts overlap, the universal set, is the essence, it is the core of what it is. For a tree or any bio+logical organism that essence is it's DNA. For a society we propose that that universal set is it's core beliefs. In later sections we dissect what those core beliefs could be...
Core beliefs are principal principles, propositions, ideas, accepted as true. They are the very essence of how one sees the past, present, future, the surroundings, other beings, and themselves.
A tree and a society have parts large and small that overlap. The area where all parts overlap, the universal set, is the essence, it is the core of what it is. For a tree or any bio+logical organism that essence is it's DNA. For a society we propose that that universal set is it's core beliefs. In later sections we dissect what those core beliefs could be...
Guiding PrinciplesA discussion on how core beliefs are instilled
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ContentsA preview of how we'll delve into identifying core beliefs
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Metamorph your mind and the rest follows.
We proposed that society is a kind of system and that the elements that make up a societal system are its individual members. If we take these ideas further then what follows is that society itself does not exist in some other country, far off region, nor exclusively in the territory which you dwell. Society itself doesn't exist in any one building, set of buildings, or in any architectural structure. Society itself does not exist one document, set of documents, or any oral declarations. Society doesn't exist in any particular race, sex, class, “elite” group, nor in any one single individual. Society does not exist out there--some where. Society exists in you. Society exists within you. Society exists within you and everyone around you. In essence, you are your particular society.
You are a seed of your society. The thoughts in your mind, continually influenced by everything around you, directly and indirectly, is where society exists. If you assassinate the queen, king, president, or prime minister others would simply take their place or be voted in. There is an assumption that their must be some recognized leader. If you blow up the court, congress, or parliament, convening would simply take place else where until the buildings are rebuilt. There is an assumption that there must be some governing body. If an empire, country, or corporation collapses today, others would vie to replace them tomorrow. There is an assumption that there must be organization over large territories. If all the constitutions, declarations, and documents were torn up and burned, in an effort to rewrite them, many of the details and emphasis might change but the main points and premises would be fundamentally the same. There's an assumption perhaps that if something unwritten is illegitimate. At this point we are not arguing the validity of any of these assumptions, for now we're pointing out that: Unless you have an alternate set of core beliefs, an alternate set of assumptions, an alternate vision, you would recreate the same essential structures and dynamics instilled by your particular society because society lives in you.
To change a society, first you change yourself, you change your mind. More accurately you begin the changing the thoughts, beliefs, expectations held in your mind. To do that you'll need to know what those thoughts, beliefs, and expectations are.
You are a seed of your society. The thoughts in your mind, continually influenced by everything around you, directly and indirectly, is where society exists. If you assassinate the queen, king, president, or prime minister others would simply take their place or be voted in. There is an assumption that their must be some recognized leader. If you blow up the court, congress, or parliament, convening would simply take place else where until the buildings are rebuilt. There is an assumption that there must be some governing body. If an empire, country, or corporation collapses today, others would vie to replace them tomorrow. There is an assumption that there must be organization over large territories. If all the constitutions, declarations, and documents were torn up and burned, in an effort to rewrite them, many of the details and emphasis might change but the main points and premises would be fundamentally the same. There's an assumption perhaps that if something unwritten is illegitimate. At this point we are not arguing the validity of any of these assumptions, for now we're pointing out that: Unless you have an alternate set of core beliefs, an alternate set of assumptions, an alternate vision, you would recreate the same essential structures and dynamics instilled by your particular society because society lives in you.
To change a society, first you change yourself, you change your mind. More accurately you begin the changing the thoughts, beliefs, expectations held in your mind. To do that you'll need to know what those thoughts, beliefs, and expectations are.
Guiding PrinciplesA discussion on how core beliefs are instilled
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ContentsA preview of how we'll delve into identifying core beliefs
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