Institutional Balance
Period 4
Developmental Objects? first define themselves as complexly constituted institutions in the Institutional Balance. They may define themselves as members of a single institution, but more likely as a members of a variety of different institutions representing different aspects of their identities.
Thus, skills at this level are capable of being taught due to the level of mastery which institutional awareness allows. Four sets of seasons should bring them to the point where their institutions come into conflict requiring them to become external objects, an organization that one has rather than an institution that one is. Between these third and fourth sets of seasons a minor crisis arises which is known as the fascist impulse, requiring another level of internal differentiation.
A great deal of the Institutional Balance is concerned with internal process. This period of introspection is where to the two extra cycles of the seasons arise. It is also where individual creativity and even genius can arise. Out of this process it is even possible for new levels of existence to come into being.
Elements 55-86
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Subject-Object relations
The subjects of the Institutional Balance are institutionally constituted individuals. The objects are peers or friends. <br>
Examples
- many (but not all) mature adults are in this level of moral development, defining themselves as societies of competing interests
- Marvin Minsky (see previous)
- an industrial-age culture (in our world)
- an age-of-magic culture (in FaerieMUD)
- a covenant whose Governance has grown so complex as to require a democratic Order
- a master-level skill (the genius path is required for continued improvement at some point in this level of skill)
- a skill at the Institutional Balance enables a crafter to make artifacts capable of being enchanted.
- the Institutional matter a craftmaster should use to best achieve an artifact capable of being enchanted:
- if a gem is needed, an adamantium or corundum, like:
- white diamond?, or
- star sapphire?, or
- ruby?, or
- padparadscha?, or
- black diamond?, or
- blue sapphire? or
- dreamstone or the other inclusions
- if a wood is needed, a hardwood or fir?, like:
- oak, or
- silver fir, or
- yew, or
- ash, or
- birch
- if a metal? is needed, a heavy metal?, like:
- if a gem is needed, an adamantium or corundum, like:
- Draken?, Human?, High Sylvan, Cave Elvish and Centrine? are !FaerieMUD languages which have reached the Institutional Balance (or English and Japanese in the non-fae world)
<br> See also Period 4, the Independent dependency, Interpersonal Balance, and Interindividual Balance.
— Scotus - 21 Apr 2001
