Di, 'white' declatimity (acceptance of subordination)

Keywords: patience, service, obedience, performance, duties, debt (to parents, homeland, people, party, etc.), subordination, self-denial, self-sacrifice, cohesion, unity, collectivism, conservative values, paternalism, people (nationalism), state (statism), army (militarism), church (religious fundamentalism).

Definitions:
Di (in general): Parochial altruism - increased cooperation between one's own against the background of increased confrontation with strangers; suppression of individuality and social cohesion for the sake of survival of the social structure as a whole // strengthening cooperation within one's own group against the backdrop of intensified opposition to outsiders; suppression of individuality and social cohesion for the survival of the social structure as a unified whole
Program Di: Compliance with prohibitions and taboos that limit personal initiative in the name of preserving the social structure, and encouraging others to do the same
Creative Di: Participation in collective activity, deriving benefit from aligning one's interests with those of the majority

Typical characteristic components of Di:
Di + declatimity = Tends to stick together with others, feels comfortable only within a group, pack, or hierarchy, where decisions are made for them and goals are set for them
Di + aristocracy = Supports a single vertical power structure, strict social stratification, and censorship of information
Di + introversion = Compliance, patience, avoids speaking out (not wanting to violate agreement/subordination)
Di + rationality = Discipline
Di + statics = Asceticism - indifference to one's own health, comfort, fashion sense, etc.

Atypical characteristic components of Di:
Di + questimity = Maintains a long psychological distance from people, is not inclined to open up quickly
Di + democracy = (no pronounced properties)
Di + extroversion = Stress resistance
Di + irrationality = Indifferent to one's fate
Di + dynamics = Believes that safety is more important than truth, freedom, and independence

Typical manifestations of the combination of Di with other functions:
Sum of functions:
Di + Ne = First thinks about other group members, and then about themselves
Di + Se = Joins the strongest in the group's war against external enemies, approves of usurpers (if someone managed to seize power, it means they are a good military leader)
Di + Ni = Potential readiness for self-elimination, suicide [analogous to the built-in mechanism of cellular apoptosis at the social level]
Di + Si = mental viscosity and slow-wittedness, gets tired of active thinking, wants not to doubt and blindly believe authority // Mental sluggishness and slow thinking, tires of active thinking, wants to believe blindly in authority
Di + Ti = Ability to patiently follow an unchanging schedule; desire to preserve the social structure (where each new generation repeats what the previous one did), impose traditional values (man as warrior, woman as mother and keeper of the hearth)
Di + Fi = Ability to patiently educate someone; conformism - fears untested innovations, always follows generally accepted norms of behavior
Di + Te = Hard work - likes to be loaded with the work assigned to them
Di + Fe = Herd instinct - always feels a sense of belonging to the collective and follows its majority
Di + Qe = Negative attitude towards any private initiative not controlled "from above", fights against private initiative
Di + De = Willingness to participate in any activity led "from above", submitting to appointed leaders and performing dirty work, both physically and morally, that they would never undertake on their own initiative

Sum of three functions:
Di + Se + Ti = Militarism; rigid division of the world into friends and enemies
Di + Se + Fi = Conservatism; negative attitude towards innovations
Di + Ne + Ti = Asceticism; tendency towards communist views
Di + Ne + Fi = Altruism; negative attitude towards consumer society values

​​Difference in functions:
Di - Ne = Likes monotonous (totalitarian, barracks-like) order and strict discipline
Di - Se = Has a "voice of conscience" that reproaches for "bad" actions
Di - Ni = Typical "workhorse" who feels responsible for everything and everyone, for whom everyone works hard // on whom everyone relies
Di - Si = Directs aggression towards themselves in case of failures and setbacks
Di - Ti = Anti-intellectualism, distrust of independently thinking people
Di - Fi = Approves of cruel decisions by the authorities
Di - Te = Fatalism - disbelief in the ability to change anything; reverence for what the majority considers "sacred"
Di - Fe = Seriousness - never jokes or fools around; does not cry, complain, or share their problems with others
Di - Qe = Able to endure hardships and unjust treatment for a long time without irritation or rebellion
Di - De = Rarely tells others about their interests and does not care about what others are interested in - believes that everyone should pull their assigned load without trying to trade with someone else
Di - Qi = Collectivism - believes that society has the right to suppress those whose personal interests run counter to the values ​​of the majority

Conclusions.
Di is a force of collective attraction and "sticking" together (cohesion), taking subjectivity away from the individual and transferring it to society as a whole - as a single superorganism governed from one center and ideally possessing collective will and unanimity (social golem/egregor).
According to Di, individual activity is possible only if it aligns with the position of the group and its leadership.
Thus, introverted (base) Di suppresses its own activity when and if it contradicts the opinion of the majority of the reference group, to which the individual is oriented and feels a sense of belonging to.
On the other hand, extroverted (creative) Di enhances group-approved activity by engaging hesitant or unaligned individuals through the propagation of "correct" values. Against a “central” background, such activity inevitably includes intimidation, ridicule and suppression by other means of the will of deviants, "black sheep", real and imaginary dissidents - opponents of the ruling course and the conformist majority supporting it. The ultimate goal of creative Di activity is the collapse of opinion diversity into a unified, dense, and like-minded social core, the members-particles of which feel their distance from other societies and clearly identify themselves in contrast to them, according to the principle of "us-them".

Against a “central” background, Di exhibits a particularly strong connection with militarism and the cult of war, while against a “peripheral” background it is responsible primarily for altruism and a naïve willingness to unquestioningly accept propaganda-imposed imperatives for self-reassurance.

Thus, Di fully manifests itself in conditions of war between social structures, as such conflicts drastically intensify confrontations between societies. In these clashes, all else being equal, those societies and groups with a higher percentage of altruists - willing to sacrifice themselves for the survival of others - prevail (while societies with few such altruists, where individuals prioritize self-preservation, quickly dissipate, and their governing structures capitulate).

Summarizing all of the above, Di from a biosocial point of view can be defined as a complex of individual properties, evolutionarily interconnected with STRONG GROUP SELECTION in the population (while the active social role of Di works to strengthen group selection, and its passive role is associated with qualities that provide the group as a whole with an advantage under conditions of strong group selection).

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