Values Trust and Groups

 

Outside of the realm of common purpose, the individual does not participate in the group forum. This is obvious, but what does it say for an urban-based civilization. Does this mean that crisis is essential to civil order? As an intuitive guess, would not poorly prepared authority figures settle upon the idea of maintaining a state of crisis as a means to legitimize or consolidate their power?

Beyond common purpose it appears that common ideology serves to provide coherence to the group. Yet we are all witnesses to the slight differences in ideology that can precipitate serious conflict between groups. Unless we are all quixotic, which as beings poorly equipped with sensory apparatus, is not entirely out of the question, slight differences in the nuances of ideology should not cause significant disparity between groups.

While differences in ideology may not cause group rivalry, where there is environmental stress, our high level of associative capacity, with which we compensate for our senselessness, can accentuate insignificant ideological disparity. The resultant synthesis of conflict leads to authoritarian, militaristic and subjugative solutions to the crisis of maladaptive resource interaction. Resource inadequacy though, is the result of improper application of the human capacity for efficient use of our limited sensory information by using our higher associative capacity to formulate successful strategies.

Crisis can therefore be associated with an inadequate organization of human potential. Yet if common purpose is not holding us together and ideology can be infinitely reconfigured to pit environmental crisis against social crisis, what is left to coordinate improvements in human social activity? The answer is language, but what aspects of language actually coordinate social activity, when the same language can be exploited by differing ideologies in the conflagration of social crisis?

In the pursuit of a verification of a chance discovery of the meanings of human sounds and letters, the answer to the above conundrum has surfaced. That answer finds it's root in the ordering of the alphabet letters. The potential that justifies the pursuit and domination of singular ideals is the primary focus of the alphabet, embodied in the first letter, which possesses the inhering meaning of ideal. The letter "A" encompasses all aspects of that which is ideal, such as precision, sharpness, perfection, unity and idealism itself. The benefit of such a concept being the dominant focus of western civilization is that it enables the centralization of authority. The problem with it is that the planet is highly diverse and no singular ideal can possibly hope to be perfectly adapted to more than a little piece of her.

If the pursuit of precision allows for the elimination of all that does not satisfy the dominant model, rather than insist upon reconfiguration of the model to adapt to all it encounters that is already adapted to planetary existence, than the so called "ideal" is not as it claims. The solution to this problem, I contend, is to drop the idea of a singular cultural ideal and transfer the social focus to the pursuit of a common goal. The goal I suggest is that of long term sustainability of biotic life.

If the alphabet's order is reconfigured to inspire the coordination of biotic sustainability subconsciously, as the current alphabetic order inspires the dominance of idealism in "civil" foci, the perpetual erosion of resources in the establishment of authority can be obviated. Perhaps this all sounds idealistic itself, well than you are suffering from synesthesia because this is a visual stimulus not auditory. Actually, all ideas that do not harmonize directly with the alphabet's value structure are perceived as idealistic as a consequence of their highly improbable materialization in the milieu of the established alphabet's social dominance. What makes the pursuit of a new phonetic order not idealistic is that it is utilizing the exact same mechanism as the alphabet. If pursuing a new order is called idealistic, than retaining the deficient alphabetic one becomes perceived as idealistic also, which forces us to reconsider our allegiance to it in the face of resource crisises.