292 A Programmer’s Guide to the Mind
Mercy identification to „teleport‟ across the chasm of mental confusion and
to experience mental transformation.
Second, the mindset is also there. Fractal learning teaches that there is a
general Teacher theory which ties together all of the actions and thoughts
of life. Communism for years taught the presence of such a theory. The
central planning and philosophy of communism often had dreadful Mercy
consequences, but they did at least produce positive Teacher emotions.
Now that the „inevitable victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie‟ has
not come to pass, Teacher thought in the Russian citizen has lost its general
understanding of life and wants a replacement. This intellectual hunger
provides the ideal motivation for programming Teacher thought.
So how can the Russian people make a jump involving Perceiver logic
when the country is characterized by a famine of Perceiver confidence? I
suggest that while the average Russian has no clue about truth, he has
learned a lot about error—in two specific areas. First, he knows that a
central plan which ignores Perceiver truth leads to tyranny and chaos. The
evidence lies rusting and rotting around him. Second, he also knows that a
plan which focuses upon external goals will eventually destroy the
individual and the inner person. The evidence for this sits drinking and
dying around him. These two lessons are at the core of mental
transformation, which uses Perceiver logic and belief, spurred sometimes
by suffering, to rebuild the internal me.
My own personal path also began with a knowledge of error. My strict
upbringing and strong principles taught Perceiver strategy in me to discern
wrong with great accuracy, and gave Server mode the skill of not doing
those actions which were „wrong.‟ A When I discovered that a general
Teacher theory resided within these mental walls of taboo, my emotional
focus gradually changed from the suppression of „bad‟ to the uplifting of
„good.‟ The content of thought was not altered, but the motivation changed
dramatically.
Maybe the communists really were right when they taught that
oppressive government and repressive management could be overthrown
by a general theory. Maybe they simply chose the wrong theory and the
wrong method. They tried to help the wrong world and the wrong me.
They thought that improving the external environment would create a
better man, and ignored the internal world of thought that could transform
people and equip them to create a better world.
Before we go on with our look at Teacher thought, I would like to
make one more comment about fractal learning. I have suggested that it is
helpful to know that a general principle applies to many individual
situations. However, this knowledge does me no good unless I have
A Just as Perceiver strategy can gain confidence in both truth and error, so
Server confidence can involve both doing and not doing actions.