Unicist Country Archetypes


Unicist country archetypes are the fundamental structures that define the behavior of a culture. These archetypes determine the ethics of a culture, which in turn defines acceptable behavior. The purpose of identifying country archetypes is to forecast a country’s evolution by understanding its underlying ethics, as ethics materialize into the habits that drive a culture’s functionality.

In essence, unicist archetypes delineate the accepted functionality of a culture: those who align with this functionality are considered “citizens,” while those who do not are viewed as aliens.

The functionality of the archetype is driven by the structure of the unicist logic, that emulates the intelligence of nature. Thus, a country archetype encompasses a purpose, an active function, and an energy conservation function.

Studying the history of a country reveals a structural behavior, shaped by its habits, that changes little over time, affecting the evolution or involution of the culture based on two aspects:

  1. Changes in the external environment in which the culture exists.
  2. Changes initiated by the members of the culture.

Deep historical analysis, aimed at uncovering the nature of a culture as defined by its archetypes, typically reveals that most changes occur at an operational rather than a structural level.

For example, considering the Roman Empire, you will see its slow development from original tribes to an empire and its subsequent evolution to its current form. Archetypes evolve very slowly, requiring hundreds of years if conditions permit; involution, although faster, also takes centuries.

The values of a culture are implicit in the values of its elite. Therefore, understanding the archetype of a culture involves researching the evolution of its establishment and the significant events that occurred.

The Archetype of ChinaThe Archetype of GermanyThe Archetype of USAThe Archetype of RussiaThe Archetype of Japan

Research of Unicist Country Archetypes

Researching archetypes involves using unicist ontological reverse engineering to analyze the functionality of a culture’s habits. This process defines the purpose, active function, and energy conservation function of core habits, which dictate accepted and automatic behaviors in family settings.

To define a culture’s ontological structure and describe its fundamentals, it is necessary to hypothesize about its past, validate these ideas with present facts, and confirm them through destructive tests of future forecasts.

Some structural patterns of cultural behavior can be discerned by understanding the establishments of cultures in the past. These patterns are operational concepts implicit in a country’s habits.

Operational concepts describe the myths that govern social behavior and the trade-offs made by the utopias proposed by cultural participants.

When these operational concepts have been identified, the implicit purposes of their actions must be uncovered. The purposes sought are not the ones declared by the “actors” but those actually produced by them. We are interested in the structural results of these actions at a conceptual level, not just their operational objectives.

Cultural Behavior and Evolution

It should be noted that the real purposes of culture are taboos and only shared among those who can influence them. For the rest of society, these purposes are confused with operational objectives, which are mistakenly regarded as the actual objectives.

The real objectives of a culture, embedded within the archetypes, guide the actions of the entire society. Although there are different segments within a culture’s archetype, the objectives are essentially cross-cultural because they respond to the natural basic needs of people.

The active function of a society is represented by its establishment and elite, which is observable and measurable. The patterns of these actions are constrained by the myths of society. Paradoxically, these myths, which are implicit in the values of the middle class, act as the energy conservation function, preserving objectives and preventing the elite’s utopias from altering the society’s real purposes.

The ultimate purpose of any social organization is the well-being of its society, though it must be recognized that some societies exclude certain members from their structure, such as slaves in ancient Greek democracy.

Archetypes and the Power of a Country

Cultural archetypes define the power of a culture as well as the ethics and gravitational forces the culture uses to maintain that power. Power, defined in physics as the amount of work done or energy converted per unit of time, in a cultural context, is the capacity of a country to effect change. Power implies a measure of speed.

A country scenario is defined by the integration of a social scenario, an economic scenario, and a political scenario sustained by the lifestyle of a culture based on the archetype of a culture that defines its ethics.

Country archetypes emulate the functionality of the unicist logic and evolve according to the rules of the laws of evolution. The purpose of a Unicist Country Archetype is to sustain and build power to influence the environment; its active function is the ethics of the culture, and its energy conservation function is the gravitational force the culture uses to ensure minimum strategies.

This differentiation explains the varying influences and developmental trajectories of countries.

Five different functional levels of archetypes that generate varying degrees of power for their countries have been identified:

  1. Transitional
  2. Surviving
  3. Subsistent
  4. Expansive
  5. Influential

Unicist Transition Country Archetype

The power of a cultural nucleus defines the possibility of generating an archetype. When the power does not suffice to establish a functional identity in the environment. Cultures adopt a transition archetype to survive until they find the energy to develop their cultural archetype.  

Unicist Surviving Country Archetype

Surviving cultures are driven by surviving ethics. Surviving ethics implies that the objective of the culture is to survive. Its actions are basically to appropriate value from the environment and the operational myth that sustains this appropriation is the need to hold things, to own and dominate something.

Unicist Subsistent Country Archetype

The subsistent archetypical cultures are driven by the earned value ethics. It implies that their actions are basically driven by a value adding action in order to obtain a benefit and avoid degrading into a surviving archetype.

Unicist Expansive Country Archetype

The cultures that are installed in the expansive archetype deal naturally with value-adding as an attitude. The dominant ethical level of this culture is the value-adding ethics. This implies a high level of awareness of their actions to be able to generate increasing amounts of added value.

Unicist Influential Country Archetype

The influential archetype is the maximal level a society can achieve. It means that the culture can influence the environment while it adapts to it in an active way: Influencing while being influenced. This requires a society with an elite with an extreme level of awareness and being able to pay the prices of sustaining such a level of awareness, which necessarily produces division among the members of the culture.

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