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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/14/britain-fifties-book-review-whitehorn Trying to understand today's society by understanding where it came from.

I don't personally feel it's getting old: I still use it to get a handle on people and how I'll jive with them, which is it's main utility I think. For deeper stuff like neurosis and trigger points, it's the Enneagram. What is probably getting old is the online discussion of it across all...

Happy 2025 to you too !!

Yes there's interesting links between Freud's theories, via Bernays, and consumer capitalism, modern marketing etc. Quality responses as usual. From Asa's comments I see how some in the Enneagram community typed him as a Six rather than a Five. I haven't really read him. Maybe I throw the baby...

Preferences, not abilities, and all that.... Thanks, I'll have a look.

I've often seen it stated he was an ISTJ. Indeed, that he "pissed Si all over the place". I've never read him but.... abstract ideas and symolism. Sensor? ??? ?? ?

Must admit, I haven't paid much attention to MBTI trends over the years but I notice, as with the Enneagram, that searches bring up more and more banal content that would insult the intelligence of most over-12s. I wonder if that's helping to turn people off it?

This is why I'm confused about claims of greater individuation at present. When I switch on the UK media I see and hear people who look and sound one of a limited number of ways, and adhere to beliefs drawn from a limited set of options and often from which all of their positions on different...

I talk guitar technique with other players occasionally but usually bore them.

It can quickly become a chorus of opinions.

I still can't decide who to vote for in the 2024 UK general election, and it's in July.

I guess I'm with the late Claudio Naranjo here, but I think there's something decidedly crass about the commercialisation of the Enneagram. And I think testing for a fixation is sort of like rating artworks on a scale of ten.

Doing the dishes. I'm in the preliminary planning phase.

Prolly not. I doubt much would change if I lived my life again either. I'd be driven by all the same fears and needs.

Like Wyote says, read around on your own - and many of those "pros" are full of it; cultivate a healthy disdain. Try to find one or two examples of that combo, maybe from your past, and compare them to yourself. 3w4/INFJ example, I would say: Also: But you got to read and soak up lots of...