Tennessee Jed
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I'm reading Disco's posts in light of MBTI. He's a Te-Dom, whereas I'm an Fi-Dom. We're opposites. So I'm seeing a lot of Te-Dom in his posts.
Disco is a good man. If he's freaking out a bit, that's just because he's reflecting Te-Dom distress at signs of breakdown of social order. As I see it, it's resulting in some appearance of Fi-Inferior in him.
To spell it out a bit more:
Disco is a Te-Dom, and Te-Dom is all about social order and organization (Te-Dom is about systems applied at the social level.) Te-Doms feel most comfortable when boundaries are clearly defined and everyone is doing what they should be doing. Compare that to Fi-Dom (the opposite) which is all about quintessential individualism and freedom, to the point of being accepting of chaos and disorder.
So Te-Doms kind of freak out and feel distressed when social order starts breaking down. If they go to the extreme, their Fi-Inferior rears up and they start predicting all kinds of disaster scenarios.
Meantime Fi-Doms (like me) get distressed by too much social order and organization (it triggers our Te-Inferior). Instead, Fi-Doms like me appreciate a chaotic, unpredictable environment: It brings our predictive skills to the front. We Fi-Doms are good at reading personal values and aspirations. We can pick our way through the chaos of conflicting feelings and claims of multiple conflicting parties and eventually start to see the new order emerging. I actually tend to feel kind of energized by a social environment like today's, especially after having seen similar situations in the past.
That's why Fi-Doms tend to be the hippies of the MBTI. Hippies are all about freedom, no rules, no restrictions, to the point of chaos and disorder. That's the environment where Fi-Doms function best.
Just my opinion, of course. Reading the matter through the lens of MBTI.
