in short yes, but its complicated. every quadra has their own relationship toward time and that factors into it. linearity in emotion is not the same thing as time. in a sense beta is more linear in time, yet nonlinear in emotion, hence +/- states generate momentum toward real progress. pure + would cut the legs out from the tension that causes humanity to better itself. democrats see time as cyclical with transcendent collective progress being a kind of dream only, with present and near-term states (within the span of an individual life) being the proper frame, hence democracy