Dynamics of Consent: PH'5Q4HK
The fuller title would be: . As proposed earlier, consent is the distinctive cohesive force for .
Institutions are massive and simply there due to implicit consent over a long period of time. Consent as an explicit active force relates to the current state of the institution and potential alterations in that functioning. This applies even if the public cannot grasp what any alteration entails and even if much consent is by default.
It follows that the attitude of many may show up via dissent in the form of complaints or protests of various sorts by individuals, in the media or from activist groups.
Both consent and dissent apply at all Levels and to interactions between those Levels. The taxonomic pattern that results from mapping these states and influences is a Tree.
For the nature of Trees and methods of analysis, see the Hub.
In pursuing this analysis, each Level will consider the following:
- Dynamic duality which generates Centres in the various Levels
- Channels that mediate influence between Centres.
Dynamic Duality
Trees reflect actual personal functioning in the current socio-physical reality. As such, they operate under the influence of a dynamic duality which means that functioning may be governed by:
- personal or individual forces, potentially biassed or self-interested, labeled P.
or
- societal, communal or contextual forces, potentially impersonal and impartial, labeled S.
or
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a balance of forces, due to a synthesis or fusion of poles i.e. any activity is simultaneously responding to both individual and social forces that cannot be disentangled: labeled B.
Application of a dynamic duality to a Level converts it into either one or two . When there are two polar opposite Centres, the more dominant one in practice is by convention placed on the right side of the Tree.
Channels
There is a standard pattern in that:
•all Centres influence Centres at the neighbouring level,
•L's 1 to 6 influence Centres that are 2 levels away, and vice versa;
•L7 influences the Centre that is 3 levels away, and vice versa.
It will be necessary to consider whether this pattern of Channels applies to the . We must also be confident that other possible Channels cannot or should not be activated.
Labelling
Two forms of labeling are used for influences between Centres.
1. Labels for directional effects colour-coded e.g. if Centre A dominates Centre-B, then a label will indicate how Centre-A affects Centre-B, and how Centre-B affects Centre-A.
2. An abstract label in violet bold for the operation of both Centres and the Channel.
The Tree pattern will be explained in terms of its internal duality, which corresponds to the two Spiral Cycles, and corresponds to the two .
The lower section uses the and is about supporting the institution through understanding. The upper section uses the and is about questioning the institution on the basis that something is not acceptable.
- L1-L4: Centres and Channels that support the institution.
- L5-L7: Centres and Channels that question the institution.
Originally posted: 19-Nov-2022. Last updated: 28-Mar-2024