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    Default Socionics was created by America for the Soviets

    I have no idea either way but a lot of things about it just seem suspicious. For one, Soviet Russians didn't exactly have glam rockers or 50s housewives, and for another thing, it looks suspiciously similar to MBTI in how it's formatted. I read an article a while back saying "the need to put everything into neat categories is characteristically corporate America" although it was just referencing MBTI and not socionics at all. So, discuss.

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    Fun conspiracy question: If America created it, what was the original purpose of introducing this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chae View Post
    Fun conspiracy question: If America created it, what was the original purpose of introducing this?
    To get people used to capitalism

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wyrd View Post
    To get people used to capitalism
    If you now manage to connect Socionics -> people and capitalism -> money, this could be a thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chae View Post
    If you now manage to connect Socionics -> people and capitalism -> money, this could be a thing.
    Socionics = social economics

    Quote Originally Posted by Bertrand
    the need to put everything into neat categories goes back at least to the ancient Greeks (you might say its the cornerstone of western civilization); just sounds like another uninformed conspiracy theory
    If this is so, why can I be a mixed temperament, but I can't be a mixed sociotype?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wyrd View Post
    Socionics = social economics



    If this is so, why can I be a mixed temperament, but I can't be a mixed sociotype?
    i think you can be a mixed sociotype it just depends on what you mean by mixed sociotype... reality is something more than a Ti category, Ti describes things, it doesn't make them what they are. if you understand "mixed sociotype" as something logically possible, i.e.: not a "square circle" then of course you can (in terms of pure possibility) be that. the problem is a lot of Ti types would understand "mixed sociotype" to be, by definition, a contradiction-in-terms, thus impossible on those grounds. If you're coming it from the point of view of Fi, we're all "square circles" if you think about it--that's very much the human condition in a certain sense. Or just coming from perhaps a different individual Ti, such that "mixed sociotype" is coherent. I guess it would be your job to explain such a thing in a way that was convincing however, if you want anyone else to believe it ("why can't I?" really means "why won't other people accept?"). As for you, yourself, the individual, the subjective self, you can of course, and will, understand things in exactly the way you choose to

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    Or wait, I can answer this myself: for purposes of collective confusion!

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    the need to put everything into neat categories goes back at least to the ancient Greeks (you might say its the cornerstone of western civilization); just sounds like another uninformed conspiracy theory

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bertrand View Post
    the need to put everything into neat categories goes back at least to the ancient Greeks (you might say its the cornerstone of western civilization); just sounds like another uninformed conspiracy theory
    This thread is about having fun, not actual conspiracy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chae View Post
    This thread is about having fun, not actual conspiracy
    Wut /squints/ Need to metabolize this.

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    I mean it's generally easier to make decisions about other people, if they are simplified into categories. Don't you think? But heh, the outcome of doing so might not be so great. It's like playing your chances, and you might be completely wrong in the end.

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