Sunday 23 October 2022

The Architecture of Belief : Two Tribes



PSY-434 - Maps of Meaning
The Architecture of Belief

“…and The Thing about Familiar Territory for us is,
most of the Familiar Territory that you inhabit
most of the time — is Other People.


Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background


“In this lecture, I discuss The Context within which 
The Theory I am delineating through 
this course emergedthat of The Cold War

What is Belief? 
Why is it so important to people? 
Why will they fight to protect it? 

I propose that Belief unites a culture's 
Expectations and Desires 
with The Actions of it's People
and that the match between those two 
allows for cooperative action 
and maintains emotional stability

I suggest, further, that Culture 
has a deep narrative structure
presenting The World as 
A Forum for Action, with characters 
representing The Individual, 
The Known, and The Unknown --
-- or The Individual, Culture and Nature --
-- or The Individual, Order and Chaos.”




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