Originally Posted by
Absurd
Hey divided and any one who is reading this, be it socionics believers and infidels alike. You're the same to me actually.
Preaching that there is no such thing as socionics to the audience is futile. What are you saying - are you saying that social constructions are wrong?
People make a social distinction between a truck, van, car and bus. Yet they are all vehicles that have a the same if not similar function. One is not better than the other - they are different.
As for Visual Identification - people in society use eyesight, not smell or any other sense, to sexually select partners. Pheromones actually may be the underlying thing that is making this or that type "look good" since the sense of smell is the only sense we have that is directly connected to the limbic brain, the point is still moot to this broad subject since in everyday speech and in society we categorize people at a distance, categorize whole nations. I mean, these great socionics people do that. Rick did that. Ashton is doing that and so on.
That is, humans still go by eyesight - they look at the person's looks to categorize them into this or that "type." Same thing applies when you substitute type with race.
You can even think about quadras as four major races paraphrasing Coon, that is, the great socionics guru, I mean anthropology guru who thought he is better. He thought. Thing is, people sexually select: this one is yummy, that one is yuck. Doing so, you end up with similar looking groups (quadras). Now, pheromones come into play and might be the real, underlying cause of, "I love that group" and "I hate that group" feelings.
So yes, one can say that there is no such thing as socionics, quadras, types and one can say there is. Monkey wants to categorize this into types and quadras - so be it. It is a thing humans do based on the very thing they use to sexually select partners to mate with.
Funny thing is, but I'm not sure about it, racism exists in societies where people have to compete for resources, including jobs. Racism exists when the area is crowded. Tongue in cheek Ashton.