Scientific Definition
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
Plain-English Definition
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
Feynman Explanation
Worldviews aren't opinions. They're operating systems.
Core Principle
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
Mechanisms
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Different vMemes respond to different incentives, narratives, and authority structures.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Worldviews aren't opinions. They're operating systems.
Examples
- Beck & Cowan, drawing on Clare Graves's longitudinal research.
- Different vMemes respond to different incentives, narratives, and authority structures.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Speak in the vMeme of the audience first. Only then can you move them upward.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Speak in the vMeme of the audience first. Only then can you move them upward.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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Order, discipline, hierarchy, principle, and rule-based value system. The 'right way' to do things.
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
The achievement-driven, rational, strategic, market-oriented value system. Most of Western corporate life.
Egocentric, power-driven, immediate-gratification value system. The will to dominate.
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.
We prefer stories over raw facts, even when the story is misleading.
We construct a coherent life story; that story shapes future decisions.
Cultures vary in how strictly norms are enforced and deviance punished.
Each value system (Beige through Green) believes itself to be the only valid one and dismisses the others.
The relative weight a culture gives to individual goals vs. group cohesion.
The combination of historical, social, and existential pressures that activates the next vMeme.
How much hierarchical inequality a culture accepts as normal.