you know I think there are really good points scattered throughout this thread.
keep in mind Fi is energy intensive thus you cant use it on everyone. I am selfish about who I show love to. Which means most everyone else gets Te. Between two Te users, Te actually just feels practical but I think Te used at large can overun all of the Fe social boundaries out of blindness. It can feel very direct, blunt, rude, but is energy efficient.
We also dont inherently speak Fe so will fuck up all the beautiful social rules even when we purposefully try to follow them. Te doms and auxs-never see those social rules.
Recognize oh mighty Te doms and auxs-you are missing information. (It's okay they cant see our unspoken Fi either) For the Fe users, the Fe team is essential thus it deserves understanding and respect. The Fe users feel a sense of devotion and service to the society they serve and even the extps as they age, will become obligated by those Fe bonds, to care for and provide for the others that make up their community. There are a lot of unspoken delicate things that transpire in the Fe social communications, that indicate respect and the recognition of authority via giving it to another. It really is beautiful and caring.
Te does the same thing wrt to social responsibility-it is just more knee jerk epathic maybe, than based upon social roles and respect? It derives from "white knighting" of the Fi population. It is an knee jerk empathic response to "save" ie provide for the Fi users. Same type of social ties, social obligations, slowly grown into the Te doms and auxs, that happen with the EXTPs-but just a massively different communication system. It appears more one-on-one that the Fe reciprocal social networks but it is kinda the same idea.
So i had this idea though.
Assuming an Fe/Ti dominated group was hunting party in nature. The Ti doms and auxs hunt then share with the Fe social clan which must share space with out being directly dominating and share food in a subtle yet well understood social manner, that bonds but does not allow overt aggression. Also if you cant hold your own due to injury or illness you will slow the entire group down, thus overt Fi empathy has to be minimized.
Assume an Fi/Te dominated group is more agriculture based. It is stable, not moving, needs a high level of organization, a direct chain of command, Te power structure. There is an enhanced ability of the group to support the very weak members thus overt Fi empathy can play a larger role here and in directing suffering back to the somewhat emo-tarded Te doms and Auxs who head up the society.
blah blah blah balh and so on.
But I wonder-since all 8 functions are theoretically accessible-as we transition a group from a hunter tribe model to an settled farm model or the reverse, would you see population distributions of MBTI types change. Would it be genetic-ie certain types would be more likely to survive-or would it be cultural-certain functions would become selected for or perhaps enhanced via epigenetic means?
I dunno, I gotta go finish my beer.... (Only Fe chicks drink see through beers...)