SEE+ILI

Values of the SEE and ILI dyad (irrationals, central, descending, democrats, stubborn, prudent, process)

Jointly accepted statements:

1. In this life, everyone must think and care primarily about themselves, without fear of infringing on others - after all, the world is founded on competition for a reason.
2. Overall, I rather respect those who can steal without getting caught.
3. I’m better than others at sensing and quickly grasping subtle nuances when comparing deals based on profitability.
4. If the situation turns out such that “you can’t beat brute force”, I know how to appease those currently in power and can, for that purpose, step over my former views and be insincere (since I believe that stubbornness in such a case is not a virtue but stupidity).
5. Even when I do something wrong, embarrassment, shame, or guilt are clearly not my feelings.
6. Individuality is above all else; I’m alien to hierarchy, herd instinct, and group mentality.
7. I can convincingly lie to a client if instructed by my boss.
8. I’m not much affected by others’ moods and often remain calm even when everyone around me is worried.
9. I’m quicker than others to notice subtle nuances in development trends.
10. I feel a pleasant relief when I finally manage to do something at someone else’s expense.
11. As a politician, I would push for the repeal of all sorts of unnecessary prohibitions and restrictions.
12. I willingly and quickly find all the “weak spots” in the character and life of any person I interact with, even briefly.
13. In most situations, I am quite resourceful when trouble looms.
14. I usually don’t care about any irregularities if it hasn’t been proven they’ll negatively impact the result I want.
15. I easily identify the most likely and important version of future events.

Jointly rejected statements:

1. I can easily imagine sacrificing myself for some holy idea.
2. My attitude toward others has almost always been trusting.
3. It’s unpleasant for me to see someone grimace in pain - I immediately begin to feel something similar to their suffering.
4. I get scared myself, even to the point of startled shudders, when watching events in a well-made horror film.
5. I really love children.
6. I easily absorb other people’s moods and tend to get stuck in their emotional states.
7. When making decisions, I always instinctively consider whether they will harm humanity, society, or other people.
8. Compared to my acquaintances, I am more of an altruist by nature, almost always ready to share, trying to help, and respecting others’ interests.
9. I would feel sick bathing in luxury at others’ expense, having created nothing myself.
10. Military valor is one of the greatest human virtues.
11. Among other nations, I most respect those who know how to act in unison, as a single whole.
12. I would never get a tattoo - any interference with my body from outside is deeply painful to me.
13. I easily respond to requests to do things around the house.
14. My weakness, compared to others, is that I, unlike most, cannot lie for personal gain.
15. I more than others advocate collectivism and the principle “one for all, all for one.”
16. I always feel like part of a larger human whole - a nation, a state, a team.
17. One must love their homeland, their native land. All “rootless” people who don’t feel this and live like tumbleweeds are flawed.
18. As a politician, I would emphasize support for traditional values.
19. I believe that the interests of an individual are nothing compared to those of the family or tribe.
20. I believe that the importance and value of individual human interests are often exaggerated - because a person is always just a part of a larger whole made up of many people.
21. I often immerse myself in past emotional experiences.
22. My misfortune is that I absolutely cannot “bend the truth”.
23. Public interests have always concerned me more than personal ones.
24. My life is dedicated to the common collective good.
25. The people, with its collective self-awareness, are above any individual.

The semantic core of the values of the SEE and ILI dyad is individualism with a distinctly egoistic flavor, in which the decisive role is played by emotional alienation from others and the reduction, in one’s consciousness, of all existence in the world to one’s own personal existence. Given the low social productivity of irrationals, this gives rise to a worldview in which individuals do not produce common good through joint labor but instead play a zero-sum game with each other. And in this game, your personal goal is to outsmart others, to twist and turn so that - no matter how - you take what belongs to others and don’t let them take what’s yours.

As a result, the most typical feature of this dyad is indifferent disregard for the experiences of others (including those caused by one’s own actions), as well as a negative, contemptuous attitude toward any form of self-sacrifice - which, from this perspective, appears as self-destructive foolishness. While previously examined dyads of socionic “carefrees” essentially represented four different attitudes toward the value of one’s own personal past and future, the “prudent” dyads differ in how they relate to others’ lives - both past and future.

So what approach do SEE and ILI use here, being selfish individualists?

Their attitude toward others’ future is situational and flexible; it’s taken into account only because someday it may, by chance, intersect again with their own, and being pragmatic, they understand their actions have consequences they must insure themselves against. But other people’s past is completely devalued here, and along with it, the entire emotional charge it contains - on which human relationships largely rest.

Literally, SEE and ILI are the types most detached from the past, inclined to ignore any preconditions that led to the current state of affairs, and to consider only the actual situation in the present. Thus, if someone’s property rights are not formally recorded anywhere but are upheld only by informal agreements based on the goodwill of long-acquainted people, then such property, for SEE and ILI, is quite a legitimate target for possible seizure and appropriation. In fact, stealing whatever is “poorly guarded” and creating conditions that ease the life of thieves is a realized form of the irrational gamma’s values. By this we mean, first, the creation of social chaos - in the confusion of which it is easier to quietly carry away the product of many years of someone else’s labor. And second, the fomenting of social atomization and mutual distrust among people and of people toward themselves - since it is precisely under such conditions that it is easier to manipulate the next fool, and the chances are lower that anyone will stand up for them.

Among the 12 socionic functions, the spirit of the SEE and ILI dyad’s values is most strongly tied to a deficiency of Fe and Di - which govern a sense of connection to one’s group - and an excess of egoistic Se and Ni.

Following SEE (75%) and ILI (78%), representatives of the LIE (64%) and SLE (59%) types also share these values significantly more often than average. Least sympathetic to these values are peripheral ethical types: EII (40% agreement), ESE (44%), and SEI (46%).

Let us also consider the similarities and differences between the values of the irrational gamma dyad and the values of previously examined dyads. With the LSI+EIE dyad, there is similarity in the distrustful, generally negative attitudes toward people and the willingness to use political methods to promote one’s interests. The fundamental difference between these dyads lies in the choice between collectivism and individualism in the matter of exploiting others. For LSI and EIE, it is more appealing to be part of an elite in a group isolated from the outside world, which, under the pretext of fighting external and internal enemies, taxes its ordinary members through legal mechanisms; whereas SEE and ILI prefer to enrich themselves individually - by creating and exploiting loopholes in legal structures, and when those loopholes are discovered, moving elsewhere, abroad, to another jurisdiction where they are not yet known.

With the other gamma dyad, ESI+LIE, SEE+ILI share cosmopolitan values, in which the individual is completely emancipated, detached from the social environment that produced them, and represents an egocentric loner seeking the most profitable place for themselves on the global market. The difference between these two dyads lies in the much greater diligence and the lesser tendency toward outright “scamming” of partners among the rational gamma types (especially in the case of ESI).

With the IEE+SLI dyad, they share a postmodern worldview - where the individual essentially has no single logically coherent picture of the world, no stable ideological views or values, but instead possesses the ability to mimic those views and values that are, at the given moment and in the given social environment, most advantageous and desirable. The main difference between the gamma and delta irrationals is that the former see the world as a much colder and more cruel place and are themselves ready to approve of and participate in cruelty as an inevitable evil.

Finally, SEE+ILI share with the ILE+SEI dyad one common and unique feature. It is a negative attitude toward any prohibitions, restrictions, subordination, and coercion to “normality”, a desire to throw off any external control and, when it comes to political stance, to make life in society freer and more devoid of formalities. The difference here is that the gamma dyad, in its emancipatory and libertarian fervor, always keeps in mind its personal mercantile interest, whereas the alpha types more often act from naïve idealistic motives.