Qi, ‘white’ questimity (isolation of independence)
Keywords: independence, freedom, loneliness, personality (and everything that is personal), intellect, justice, protest, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, progress, reformism, emancipation
Definitions:
Qi (in general): Emancipation - liberation from intellectual and material dependence on the parental group, breaking free from the influence of its authorities into the global world, establishment of personal boundaries, and realization of personal interests
Base Qi: Discernment in the means of achieving goals; principled avoidance of externally imposed activity that contradicts personal interests and values
Creative Qi: Nonconformism; personal activity in which advantage is gained by breaking explicit and implicit collective rules
Typical characteristic components of Qi:
Qi + Questimity = Does not tolerate the dictate of an unfair boss or attempts at manipulation to draw them into collective complicity
Qi + Democracy = Interacts with others as equal individuals; advocates for a democratic style of leadership
Qi + Introversion = Tends to conserve energy and avoid social stress - reserved in reactions, sedentary, inactive, uncommunicative
Qi + Rationality = Does not tolerate and does not forgive violations of personal boundaries against their will, even in a "joking" form; respects others' privacy and does not participate in collective bullying
Qi + Statics = Intolerance of lies; demands equal freedom and access to the truth about what is happening for everyone
Atypical characteristic components of Qi:
Qi + Declatimity = Avoids commanding others against their will
Qi + Aristocracy = (expressed properties not found)
Qi + Extroversion = Confident in their right to change the world according to their desires, breaking existing orders
Qi + Irrationality = Does not tolerate external control over themselves
Qi + Dynamics = Focused on themselves rather than the outside world
Typical manifestations of the combination of Qi with other functions:
Sum of functions:
Qi + Ne = Love of freedom
Qi + Se = Pride, arrogance, ambition/haughtiness
Qi + Ni = Unwillingness to spend personal time on others; avoids sharing their life with anyone
Qi + Si = Avoidance of hard labor and tense, stressful situations
Qi + Ti = Truth-seeking; due to their bluntness and inability to adapt to others' prejudices, they have few useful connections
Qi + Fi = Desire for equal rights (to avoid tyrannical bosses and group coercion into something)
Qi + Te = Desire for an independent source of income (so that they can receive all income from their talent themselves)
Qi + Fe = Shares all their problems with others (hoping for help)
Qi + Qe = Developed sense of self-worth, unwillingness to endure anything for collective goals (unless it aligns with their own will)
Qi + De = Advocates for the dissolution of social boundaries, free movement of people, goods, and opinions across the world
Sum of three functions:
Qi + Ne +Ti = Supporter of scientific revolution, cleansing the system of knowledge from outdated and false ideas (dominant only by inertia and reliance on them by ruling authorities)
Qi + Ne + Fi = Supporter of cultural revolution, humanization and expansion of existing cultural norms
Qi + Se + Ti = Supporter of revolution in social governance systems, radical purification of society from parasitic elements
Qi + Se + Fi = Supporter of material and property revolution, redistribution and privatization of property held by the elites
Difference in functions:
Qi - Ne = Always controls what they say and do
Qi - Se = Physically weak, low stress tolerance, tires quickly, wants to live in a "greenhouse-like" society, seeks to change the world so that the weak are respected and loved.
Qi - Ni = Does not cower or fawn in front of anyone, does not "lie down" under the strong
Qi - Si = Likes to criticize - there are no indisputable authorities for them
Qi - Ti = Prefers to be self-employed rather than a government official (does not like to feel the dictate of a formal, impersonal system)
Qi - Fi = Unteachable in social norms - does everything in their own way and doesn't care what others think
Qi - Te = does not want to and cannot work himself to the point of exhaustion and be constantly in touch, this exhausts him; prefers personal relationships with the employer, in which there is always a chance to come to an agreement and get an indulgence // Prefers personal relationships with the employer, doesn't want or can't work to exhaustion and be constantly on call; this exhausts them.
Qi - Fe = Desire for independence from other people
Qi - Qe = Indifferent to regalia, diplomas and other signs of social prestige; does not try to manipulate himself into being someone else, more significant in the eyes of others // doesn't try to manipulate others into seeing them as someone more significant
Qi - De = Other people bother them and distract them from their thoughts; avoids socializing in groups
Qi - Di = Individualism - values their independence, demands individual justice
Conclusions.
Qi is associated with the formation of an independent personality in judgments and behavior through resistance to society, within which any individual is born and then, to a greater or lesser extent, overcomes the conformist attitudes instilled in childhood, including faith in authority (starting with the authority of one’s own parents).
Qi values intellectual independence and the ability to question even written truths more than any other function; it is the strong Qi subjects who pose uncomfortable questions and demand answers from society, who raise doubts about existing authorities and who prompt society toward peaceful (scientific and cultural) as well as bloody (governmental) revolutions, ultimately leading to the redistribution or change of power sources within it.
At the same time, introverted (base) Qi, being associated with weak stress resistance, is primarily concerned with creating and strengthening personal boundaries to preserve critical thinking and personal moral evaluation of events, even in conditions of external fascist unanimity.
Extroverted (creative) Qi, through its activity, violates generally accepted rules, thus creating precedents and showing others that the existing authorities are not all-powerful and that beyond their opinion, other perspectives are possible — and it’s not yet certain which will prevail.
Thus, the passive role of Qi is an association with qualities that give the individual an advantage in the absence of a social golem/egregor dominating the individual - namely, with the ability to think independently and make decisions adequate to the situation (and not imposed from above in the interests of the elites).
Its active role is the destabilization of the social golem, the destruction of centralized power in society (which inevitably creates uniformity and thus threatens all dissenting individuals, among whom the proportion of strong Qi holders is always the highest).
Destabilization of the social golem includes:
- Encouraging and stimulating progress to elevate new elites who disrupt the monopoly of the old ones.
- Promoting cosmopolitan sentiments, blurring borders, increasing emigration and immigration, and thereby increasing the heterogeneity of the social environment, which complicates the monopoly of any one group on power.
- Supporting a democratic model of governance, where multiple centers of power exist within the elite, focusing their energy not on suppressing dissent as a unified front but on competing among themselves—seeking allies among the people by granting various groups additional rights and freedoms rather than taking them away (as happens in monolithic authoritarian regimes).
- Conscious pacifism to prevent the rise of authoritarian leaders in wartime, who demand societal unity in opposition to a common enemy.
Being antagonistic to Di, Qi apparently historically formed and accumulated in communities where the concentration of power was constantly reduced and did not reach the level of a centralized bureaucratized despotism that eradicated any dissent within its borders. Almost all such communities were located at the intersection of trade and migration routes of heterogeneous populations, formed by descendants of refugees who had lost their group identity and thus were initially freed from the pressure of group selection (at least until a new society formed and grew its own bureaucracy and tradition).
Historical examples of Eastern despotisms show that even relatively small infusions of outsiders into already-formed conservative societies can contribute to strengthening liberal and cosmopolitan sentiments, renewing scientific, technological, and social progress—that is, temporarily increasing Qi. In contrast, a course of isolationism and national consolidation leads to the opposite effect (strengthening Di).
Summarizing all of the above, Qi from a biosocial point of view can be defined as a complex of individual properties evolutionarily interconnected with WEAK GROUP SELECTION.