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Split People in a Split World 333

Pseudo-theories drive out real theories:

 Mercy symbols distract people from pursuing intellectual thought.

 Dialogue and learning stops as people hoard their concepts.

Now, imagine living as a Mercy or a Teacher person within this type of
world. Mercy thought wants something to love; it longs to hold on to a set
of stable, emotional memories within the internal Mercy world. Similarly,
Teacher thinking desires a general understanding; it wants to focus upon a
universal theory within the Teacher inner world. Unfortunately, whenever
the Mercy or Teacher person today attempts to hold on to some emotional
memory, others try to grab it out of his hands. It used to be possible to
avoid this emotional barrage by restricting one‟s physical movements. The
Mercy person could love his home and family, for instance, and the
Teacher individual could retreat to the order of personal study. But, now
even this inner sanctum is not safe. Through media such as television,
advertising enters our living rooms in vivid color. Similarly, government
agencies move in to regulate one area of personal life after another.
These various institutions besiege us relentlessly with unrelated
emotional situations, each trying to worm its way into the inner sanctum of
Mercy identification. How is the Mercy person to defend himself when he
is up against people and organizations scheming full-time to exploit new
ways of bribing, cajoling, attacking or fooling the „doorman‟ of Mercy
identification into allowing them to reprogram his personal identity?
Similarly, we are caught in a crossfire of competing Teacher theories,
slogans, ideas, and systems. Each organization, denomination, bureaucracy,
country, and company has its own way of assigning order to complexity.
Everywhere we go, we meet individuals with their own buzzwords, sales
campaigns, positive thinking statements, personal philosophies, or pet
doctrines which they are attempting to foist upon the rest of mankind. Even
within the world of science, in which we supposedly follow the same
general theory of natural law, people constantly split into opposing schools
of thought with differing ideas and emphases.
Who survives this emotional brutality? The composite styles of
Exhorter, Contributor and Facilitator. This is because they are conscious
within the pump of the mind. If thought is a car, then they are the drivers.
They adapt to the contradictions of life in one of two ways. First, they use
their „driving skills‟ to maneuver through and around the emotional
potholes of living. When a driver has enough skill, then the shape of the
car and the condition of the road are not important.

intellectual property. Because Teacher thought is not really operating, it
can never replace what is appropriated by others.