[ExI] Theories X and Y, and theories U and T

[Damien Broderick]

On 4/15/2010 12:18 PM, Max More wrote:

> Theory U and Theory T
> by Matthew Stewart

<http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00029?pg=all>

This is very interesting, Max, for something so simplified.

It makes broad sense to me, because I was raised a strict Catholic TX 
(tragic authoritarian), although that doctrine always had its utopian 
aspects (especially given my fondness for science fiction); flipped down 
the matrix to Skinnerian UX (utopian authoritarian); following the 
événements in France in 1968 and the left-anarchist analyses that 
followed embraced UY (utopian individualist), with misgivings, not 
having seen much evidence for it other than small free presses that 
stumbled along without much coercive central control, but still ended up 
with a few tough but creative types driving expensive imported cars and 
the rest heading off to the dole queues, and these days have probably 
reverted despairingly to TY (tragic individualist), despite my abstract 
fondness for UY anarchism.

That, in turn, simplifies everything far too much, because not all 
humans have the same bent, capacity, emotionality, herd instincts, etc, 
and it's probably the case that successful coalitions of humans require 
a sort of modular assortation, wih the self-starting scientists and 
artists allowed or even encouraged to do their own thing while the 
obdurate proles are put in harness and prodded or narcotized, horrible 
though that seems to us INTJs...

Damien Broderick