DS 13 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 13—IRRATIONALITY

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IRRATIONALITY

Any and all irrationality is connected to departures from an Ideal Scene. Therefore out-points indicate departures. It must follow then that Rationality is connected to an Ideal Scene. These three assumptions should be studied, observed and fully grasped.

If these assumptions are true then one has not only the definition of sanity in an organization or individual but also of neurosis and psychosis. One also sees that any Third Dynamic activity can be neurotic or psychotic. It therefore would follow that the technology of the Ideal Scene, Existing Scene, departures, out-points and statistics would have the means of establishing sane groups or individuals or measuring and re-establishing relative sanity in them. 

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THE PLAGUE OF MAN

The irrationality in individual and group conduct is accepted as “inevitable” by most people. They toss off such irrationality with a “that’s life”. This is because the departure from any ideal is so distant as to obscure any feeling of reality about possibly achieving an Ideal Scene even in a limited area. This is of course an overwhelmed attitude. 

Man’s primary plague is irrationality. He is not in the grip of a “death wish”, nor is he having a love affair with destruction. He has just lacked any road out or the technology to put him on it. 

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RESOLVING THE SCENE

By the steps mentioned in the Data Series, big situations can be analyzed as well as little ones. The thing to do in all cases is to work out the Ideal Scene, survey the existing scene for out-points, work out statistics that should exist, find out WHY the departure, program a gradient solution back to the ideal, settle the practical aspects of it and go about it. 

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LOSING ONE’S WAY

One’s direction is lost to the degree one fails to work out the Ideal Scene. It is so easy to toss off an “ideal scene” that is not the Ideal Scene that one can begin with a false premise. Failures to examine the scene, reasonableness which causes blindness to the obvious, errors of penetration and defensive reasons not to admit it all impede a proper analysis. 

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BUILDING THE IDEAL SCENE 

To suppose one can instantly hit upon an Ideal Scene for any activity without further test is to be very fond of one’s own prejudices. There is however a test of whether you have the Ideal Scene or not. Can you staticize it? 

There seems to be a ratio between producing and consuming and it favors, apparently, higher production of something than consumption. When it gets too unbalanced in values, something seems to happen. An Ideal Scene apparently has to have a statistic or the whole thing caves in.

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IDEAL SCENE AND STAT

Whatever the facts and economic rules may be about production and the Ideal Scene, it would seem to be the case, sufficient at least for our purposes, that this rule holds good: 

THE CORRECTLY STATED IDEAL SCENE WILL HAVE A PRODUCTION STATISTIC. 

A stat is a positive numerical thing that can be accurately counted and graphed on a two dimensional thing. It is a tight reality, a stable point, which is to measure any departure from the Ideal Scene. 

One can go back and forth between the statistic and the stated Ideal Scene, adjusting one, then the other until one gets an attainable statistic that really does measure the validity of the stated Ideal Scene. 

[NOTE: Read the original for an excellent example of working out the Ideal Scene and Statistics for a shoe store.]

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VIABLE

The word “viable” means capable of living, able to live in a particular climate or atmosphere. This is true of any Ideal Scene. The Statistic measures directly the relative survival potential of the organism or its part. 

In practice one works back from the Ideal Scene of the group into its smallest part, so that all lesser Ideal Scenes and lesser statistics mount up to and bring about the main Ideal Scene and statistic. 

After that one can have better dependence upon them and keep the statistics up and the purpose going forward. 

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DS 12 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 12—HOW TO FIND AND ESTABLISH AN IDEAL SCENE

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HOW TO FIND AND ESTABLISH AN IDEAL SCENE

In order to detect, handle or remedy situations one has to be able to understand and work out the Ideal Scene, detect without error or guess any departure on it, find out WHY a departure occurred and work out a means of reverting back to the Ideal Scene.

“Change” is the root of departures. The challenge is to isolate THE change that caused the major departure. When this change is reverted a full recovery is obtained. 

The action is always

  1. Observe the decline.
  2. Locate the exact change which had been made.
  3. Revert THE change.
  4. A return to the near ideal scene would occur if one were maintaining the ideal scene meanwhile.

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THE IDEAL SCENE

There are two scenes:

A. The Ideal Scene. 
B. The Existing Scene. 

These of course can be wide apart. At first thought it would be very difficult for a person not an expert to know the ideal scene. But, it can be visualized and stated very simply.

HOWEVER, THE IDEAL SCENE CAN BE PUT SO FAR FROM REACH THAT IT APPEARS INCREDIBLE. 

The gap between the Ideal Scene and the Existing Scene can be very wide, and in any endeavor elements exist that tend to prevent a total closure between the two. However, approached on a gradient with skill and determination it can be done.

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DEPARTURE

That something, real or imagined, is wrong with the scene is a not uncommon state of mind. Seeing something wrong without seeking to correct it degenerates into mere fault finding and natter. This is about as far as many people go.  

Not knowing what’s intended or being done, or the limitations of resource or the magnitude and complexity of opposition, the armchair critic can be dreadfully unreal. Violent revolution comes about when the actual Ideal Scene has not been properly stated and when it excludes significant parts of the group.

It is really not enough to natter and it’s rather too much to thrust violent change down on the heads of one and all including the objectors. What is needed in such a case is an awareness of departure from the Ideal Scene, the discovery of WHY a departure occurred and a gradient, real and determined program to return the scene closer to the Ideal. 

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IDEAL SCENE AND PURPOSE

One doesn’t have to be much of an expert to see what an Ideal Scene would be. The entire concept of an Ideal Scene for any activity is really a clean statement of its PURPOSE. 

One has to work out fairly correctly what the purpose of an activity is and how long it is to endure before one can make a statement of the Ideal Scene. For example, the Ideal Scene of a shoe shop may be stated as, “This activity is intended to provide people with shoes for its owner’s lifetime.”

From this one can work out the complexities which compose the activity in order to establish it; and also how to spot the fact of departure from the Ideal Scene. 

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METHODS OF AWARENESS

Statistics are the only sound measure of any production or any job or any activity. Probably the most thoughtful exercise is not conceiving the ideal scene but working out what the production statistic of it is. For here, the activity must be very correctly staticized to exactly measure the Ideal Scene.

The sole fixation on making money can depart from the scene of the shoe store. Abandonment of making any money would certainly cause a departure of the shoe store.

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WHY 

Knowing, then, the Ideal Scene and its statistic one can notice an immediate departure from the Ideal Scene due to drop in statistics. Now that a departure is seen one can quickly go about noticing when and so get at WHY. When he has the WHY of the departure he can proceed to handle it. 

It is not possible to locate WHY the departure soon enough to remedy unless one takes the most reliable datum available—which is the datum most easily kept clean of out-points—which is a statistic. 

You don’t really even know there is a why unless there has been a departure. And the departure may be very hard to spot without a statistic. If an activity lacks an Ideal Scene and a correct statistic for it, it has no stable datum with which to rebuff opinion and out-points. To that extent the group goes a bit mad. 

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DS 11 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 11—THE SITUATION

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THE SITUATION

Probably the hardest meaning to get across is the definition of “SITUATION”. One can say variously “Isolate the actual situation” or “Work out what the situation is” and get the most remarkable results. We can define for our purposes in this data series the word SITUATION as follows.

A SITUATION IS A MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE.

This means a wide and significant or dangerous or potentially damaging CIRCUMSTANCE or STATE OF AFFAIRS which means that the IDEAL SCENE has been departed from and doesn’t fully exist in that area.

One has to work out or know what the Ideal Scene would be for an organization or department or social strata or an activity to know that a wide big flaw existed in it. We would then realize that a SITUATION existed because Data Analysis is also done against the Ideal Scene. We would know enough about it to look more closely to realize the situation.

Thus, if one were responsible for the area one would now know what to handle. How he handled it depends upon (a) the need, (b) availability of resources and (c) capability.

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HOW TO FIND A SITUATION

When you are called upon to find out if there IS a situation you can follow these steps and arrive with what the situation is every time.

  1. Observe.
  2. Notice an oddity of any kind or none.
  3. Establish what the Ideal Scene would be for what is observed.
  4. Count the out-points now visible.
  5. Following up the out-points observe more closely.
  6. Establish even more simply what the Ideal Scene would be.
  7. The situation will be THE MOST MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE.

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HANDLING 

Just as you proceed to the MOST MAJOR SITUATION—go big, when it comes to handling it usually occurs that reverse is true—go small!

When you really see a SITUATION it is often so big and so appalling one can feel incapable. It is seldom you can handle it all at one bang. The need to handle comes first. The resources available come next. The capability comes third. Estimate these and by getting a very bright workable (often very simple) idea. one can make a start.

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INTERFERENCE

The only danger is that the situation can be so far from any ideal that others with fixed ideas and madness can defy the most accurate and sensible solutions.

But that’s part of the situation, isn’t it?

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DS 10 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 10—THE MISSING SCENE

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THE MISSING SCENE

The biggest “omitted data” would be the whole scene. A person who does not know how the scene should be can thereafter miss most of the outpoints in it.

College education became rather discredited in Europe until students were required to work in areas of actual practice as part of their studies. Educated far from reality students had “no scene” Thus no data they had was related by them to an actual activity. There was even an era when the “practical man” or “practical engineer” was held in contempt. That was when the present culture started to go down.

A good blend would be theory and practical in balance. That gives one data and activity. But it could be improved by stressing also the ideal scene.

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BODIES OF DATA

Data classifies in similar connections or similar locations. A body of data is associated by the subject to which it is applicable or by the geographical area to which it belongs. A body of data can also be grouped as to time, like an historical period. Illogic occurs when one or more data is misplaced into the wrong body of data for it.

An example would be: “Cars were no longer in use. Bacterial warfare had taken its toll.” Cars and bacteria belong to two very different bodies of data. The brain strains to classify this disparate data together. It dreams up a new false datum to make sense out of it. In this example, it could be imagined that bacteriological warfare had wiped out all the people.

It remains that an outpoint can occur when a datum belonging to one zone of data, location or time, is inserted into another zone where it doesn’t. Primitive rejective responses to foreigners is a mental reaction to a body of people, in this case, being invaded by a person not of that tribe.

If the scene is wholly unknown, one doesn’t know what data belongs to it. Thus a sense of confusion results. There is also a reverse compulsion—to try to fit any datum found into some body of data. The mind operates toward logic, particularly in classes of things.

THE SENSIBLE HANDLING OF DATA OF COURSE INCLUDES SPOTTING A DATUM, TERMINAL, ITEM, ACTION, GROUPED IN WITH A BODY OF DATA WRONG FOR IT. AND IN SPOTTING THAT A DATUM DOES NOT HAVE TO BELONG ANYWHERE AT ALL.

When a person has some idea of the scene involved, he should be able to separate the data in it into similar groups. In general, one should be able to relate data or actions to their own classes. So there is an INCORRECTLY INCLUDED DATUM which is a companion to the OMITTED DATUM as an outpoint.

A traveler unable to distinguish one uniform from another “solves” it by classifying all uniforms as “porters.” Hands his bag to an arrogant police captain and that’s how he spent his vacation, in jail.

Lack of the scene brings about too tight an identification of one thing with another. This can also exclude a vital bit making a disassociation.

Some knowledge of the scene itself is vital to an accurate and logical assembly or review of data. The remedy of course is to get more data on what the scene itself really should consist of. When the scene is missing one has to study what the scene is supposed to consist of, just not more random data about it.

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DS 9 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 9—ERRORS

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ERRORS

Ask somebody to look at a table used for meals at the end of a meal and indicate any outpoints. Usually he’ll point out a dirty plate or crumbs or an ashtray not emptied. They are not outpoints. When people finish eating one expects dirty plates, crumbs and full ashtrays. If none of these things were present there might be several outpoints to note. The end of a meal with table and plates all clean would be a reversed sequence. That would be an outpoint. Evidently the dinner has been omitted and that would be quite an outpoint! Obviously no meal has been served so there’s a falsehood. So here are three outpoints!

It will be found that outpoints are really few unless the activity is very irrational. Simple errors on the other hand can be found in legions in any scene.

An error may show something else. It obscures or alters a datum; but It is nothing in itself. Errors do not count in pluspoints either.

People applying fixed or wrong ideals to scene are only pointing up errors in their own ideals, not those of the scene!

A reformer who had a strict Dutch mother looks at a primitive Indian settlement and sees children playing in mud and adults going about unclothed. He forces them to live cleanly and cuts off the sun by putting them in clothes—they lose their immunities required to live and die off. He missed the pluspoint that these Indians had survived hundreds of years in this area that would kill a white man in a year

THUS ERRORS ARE USUALLY A COMPARISON TO ONE’S PERSONAL IDEALS. OUTPOINTS COMPARE TO THE IDEAL FOR THAT PARTICULAR SCENE.

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