Friday, March 12, 2021

Who are kings, nobles, clerisy, common-folk of the modern age?

Nobles

These are the wealthy people. The exact amount would vary from country to country but in the US, I would say millionaires to billionares.

Clerisy 

The principal indicator is control over the party line. In the US, they are likely university professors or journalists.

Kings

Tend to be of two types. If they are king of clerisy roots, they are a university professor who made a deep & lasting impression on some billionaires. If they are a king of noble roots, they probably sponsor many a university professor through his foundation. The principal indicator is that they are able to mobilize everyone else for some cause or the other.

EDIT: I now believe that the closest thing to a king is an activist leader.

Common-folk

The classic case is a freelancer.


Thursday, March 11, 2021

The collective good of the various perfunctory giving personalities

 Hi,

Just as a refresher, personalities can be divided by their perfunctory giving, ie what does not have much of an effect on others:

  1. Non arising of unarisen inauspicious evil spiritualities

  2. Dispelling of arisen inauspicious evil spiritualities

  3. Arising of unarisen auspicious spiritualities

  4. Continuation, non-confusion, intensification, multiplication, cultivation & culmination of arisen auspicious spiritualities


Personalities group together by their type. Thus it can be asked - what are their collective actions, actions which are for the benefit of the whole personality-group? My proposal:

  1. Arising of unarisen auspicious spiritualities

  2. Continuation, non-confusion, intensification, multiplication, cultivation & culmination of arisen auspicious spiritualities

  3. Non arising of unarisen inauspicious evil spiritualities

  4. Dispelling of arisen inauspicious evil spiritualities


i.e., the collective good is doing what comes naturally to the opposite personality type. Precisely because it does not come naturally does one need the society, the group.

As an example take the first kind of personality, someone who finds sense-restraint a practical & doable practice. This being would not pay any attention to sights due to which fervor-distress might arise, sounds due to which fervor-distress might arise, .., spiritualities due to which fervor-distress might arise.

Having closed of the avenues due to which unarisen inauspicious evil might arise, one is axiomatically in tune with sights, sounds, .., spiritualties that are auspicious. They would naturally fall into groups like Meditative Mind - YouTube. And we can see how meditative mind is a collective good that benefits the whole personality type.

Now, I do not believe that Meditative Mind is the most that is possible. It may just be possible to do better than this, and it is worthy goal.

EDIT (3/12/2021): The giving personalities corresponding to the perfunctory giving personalities. This is the best way to describe them.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

On the fourfold division of society, and who is to be regarded as highest.

 It's possible to divide society into:

1) kings, who maneuver.

2) nobles, who apply (they are small-medium business owners or executives at large businesses)

3) brahmins, who strive (they determine the favored narrative)

4) country-folk, who work


We can say that these are the four classes of society.


The important part:

It is the nobles, not the kings or the brahmins or the country-folk who are to be regarded as the highest in this class classification.


When the kings is regarded as the highest, conceit will corrupt & destroy the kings. The same logic applies to the brahmins or the country-folk.


This is NOT true for the nobles! When nobles are regarded as the highest, conceit will NOT corrupt & destroy the nobles. Hence, this is an important viewpoint update to make.

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