09-10-2019, 05:32 AM
(09-09-2019, 09:50 PM)taramarie Wrote: What makes an artist smarter than an Acquisitors? An artist here btw. Very curious as I do think we are all very clever in our own way. What about an entrepreneur artist? Interesting as I would never call myself an intellectual individual for being an artist. It is more a form of self expression. I thought society deemed emotions as a form of non intellect. Yes being sarcastic here, but I do hear it so often as an ISFP artist. So to be honest it is a nice change seeing this, but it does make me curious to hear more.
The warriors use brute force to get things done. They are smarter than the others of their time, but intellectual subtlety is not their strength. War is the definitive example of brute force. The sorts of buildings that warriors construct (fortifications, barracks, and docks) are typically lacking in humanizing quirks. On the other hand, if a community is emerging from the hunter-gatherer level to the start of agrarian civilization because hunter-gatherer societies cannot well defend themselves or has just been ravaged in some calamity, then the warrior (a Civic/Hero type) is what is available first.
War creates its own problems. It is not enough to make bows and arrows; to make them effective one must estimate what angle one to make them reach the targets. Warriors end up need medics (precursors of physicians) to treat the wounded who can be helped and priests to console the hopeless. Warriors' regulations are both ineffective and excessive in peacetime, so warriors need attorneys and judges to mitigate disputes and keep people in line. If war is to end in something other than annihilation, then there will be assistants (precursors of diplomats) to establish terms (i.e., this is our tribe's hunting ground and not yours). After the war the warriors will need poets to praise the Leaders' achievements and art to decorate things. What pass as scientists, jurists, clergy, physicians, diplomats, and creative people of the time suggest the Adaptive/Artist type. In time they become more judgmental and divisive and start turning on each other as the Artist/Adaptive types become Prophet/Idealist types.
Then come the accusations of heresy and treason... and smart people find that the safe way to avoid trouble is to use one's intelligence to meet basic human desires -- through business. Besides, the warriors have often degenerated into an aristocracy and need the tax base and the means of getting provisions for war. The Nomad/Reactive type becomes the businessman, broker, salesman, and manufacturer. The fault? Making money by investments looks easier than it is, so speculative activities mushroom. Inequality of economic result intensifies. Self-indulgent hedonism becomes the norm, and people who cannot create wealth as laborers except under the command of taskmasters seek freedom.
The age of the worker is chaotic -- and short.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.