Not Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Quadrant Antagonism

Concerned Quadrant v Selfish Quadrant

Community-centred individuals desperately urge that cooperation, consultation and consensus should replace the selfish domination, exploitation and manipulation characteristic of Power-centredness.

Power-centred individuals, for their part, are contemptuous and critical of the softness, weakness and foolishness inevitable in democratic methods, and of self-sacrificing efforts to be tolerant and accepting.

The Reality-centred individuals are simply aware of what is happening, while the Kinship-centred families are uninterested.

Intellectual Quadrant v Materialist Quadrant

Cause-centred individuals and groups often look aghast at the materialism of the market. They seek to regulate its free-wheeling pragmatism and opportunism. They wish to channel money to their own ideals without considering where the money comes from.

Market-centred people view causes as naive and irrelevant distractions. Businessmen and entrepreneurs find the talk of principles and values a waste of breath. The one-sidedness of pressure groups and the self-importance of professional bodies are draining and counter-productive.

Perspective-centred people are well aware what is happening and keep out of it.

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• Proceed to the Approach Duality: Well-being v Productivity.

Originally posted: July 2009