Interpersonal Balance

Period 3

Developmental Objects? first define themselves in terms of their peers in the Interpersonal Balance. They may define themselves as part of a peer group. Or they may define themselves as outsiders who fit into no particular clique. They are learning to accomplish tasks in related skills.

Thus, skills at this level are capable of allowing tasks of related skills to be accomplished. Two sets of seasons should bring them to the point where their friends come into conflict requiring them to become an external object, a friend that one has rather than a group that one is. Between these two sets of seasons a minor crisis arises which is known as a clique, requiring another level of internal differentiation.

Elements 37-54

• Rubidium?
• Strontium?
  • Yttrium?
  • Zirconium?
  • Niobium?
  • Molybdenum?
  • Technetium?
    • Ruthenum?
    • Rhodium?
    • Palladium?
  • Silver?
  • Cadmium?
• Indium?
• Tin?
• Antimony?
• Tellurium?
• Iodine?
• Xenon?

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Subject-Object relations

The subjects of the Interpersonal Balance are peer groups. The objects are uses or wishes. <br>

Examples

• a covenant whose Governance requires multiple layers of structure
• an Age of Exploration culture has a technology in the Interpersonal Balance
• a skill which is known at a level which allows using it with other skills
• a sixth grade girl who is in a small, self-organized club at school is in the first half of the Interpersonal Balance
• a kid who notices the other Middle School students are organized into groups (stoners, skaters, greasers, socs, goths, whatever) but doesn't really feel he "belongs" in any one group (although others may pigeonhole him in that way) is in the post-minor-crisis half of the Interpersonal Balance
• a woman who seems to live her life only through her husband or her children is probably stick in the Interpersonal Balance (this may be a problem for her or not)
• a Interpersonal-level skill (the genius path is chosen at some point in this level of skill)
• a skill at the Interpersonal Balance enables a crafter to make artifacts capable of demonstrating true skill.
• the Interpersonal matter a journeyman should use to best achieve an artifact capable of demonstrating his skill:
  • if a gem is needed, a topaz or chrysoberyl?, like:
    • emerald?, or
    • spinel?, or
    • alexandrite?, or
    • aquamarine?, or
    • heliodore?, or
    • cymophane? or
    • beryl?
  • if a wood is needed, a softwood?, like:
    • hawthorne?, or
    • willow, or
    • hazel, or
    • holly, or
    • aspen, or
    • alder
  • if a metal? is needed, a normal metal?, like:
    • bronze?, or
    • silver?, or
    • tin?, or
    • strontium?, or
    • steel?
• Kobold?, Equine? and Ogham are !FaerieMUD languages which have reached the Interpersonal Balance (or later Ogham and horse whispering in the non-fae world)

<br> See also Period 3, Inclusive dependency, Imperial Balance, and Institutional Balance.

— Scotus - 21 Apr 2001