Marlowe Embree
22 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Artisans, Baby Boomers, conservativism, cyclicity, Democrat, election politics, Generation X, Great Depression, Guardians, Idealists, Intuition, Keirsey, liberalism, Marlowe Embree, Millennials, moral foundations, presidents, Rationals, Republican, saecular cycle, Sensing, Silent Generation, Strauss-Howe model, Temperament
January 7, 2015

Independent of the historical cycle, Republican presidents tend more toward Sensing, while Democratic presidents tend more toward Intuition, as predicted by theory. This calls to mind G. K. Chesterton’s famous remark, “The job of liberals is to keep making new mistakes, while the job of conservatives is to make sure that old mistakes never get corrected.”
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The typical debate—‘Profiling is bad!’ vs. ‘We’re not profiling!’—has not been particularly productive. Racial and ethnic stereotyping continues despite decades of public condemnation. It seems to me that the questions we really need to be considering are more along the lines of: ‘What is profiling?’ ‘How and when does it lead to bad outcomes?’
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Sophia Dunn
22 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: demonic, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), family, INFJ, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Sensing, Sophia Dunn
January 7, 2015

In our home ‘to J’ is a commonly used verb. “Who J’d the gaffer tape?” means, “Who put the gaffer tape away somewhere where I can’t find it?” My J-preferenced housemates need predictable order; I need a multitude of choices always visibly at hand. They like surfaces clear and relatively tidy. I need everything out where I can see it.
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