Channels around the Periphery

CL7_B-contextual adjustments have to recognize and strive to adhere to all CL6_S-authoritative standards to remain valid and accepted. However, deferring to standards does not mean ignoring local realities.

Authoritative standards may be axiomatic and expect to automatically applied, but it must be recognized that every situation has a different setting and this context cannot be ignored for reasons of purity. Appropriate changes must be allowed.

The CL5_S-prevailing mindset is somewhat vague, even inchoate, because there can be no definitive statement, so it cannot by simply subjected to CL6_S-authorized standards. Nevertheless any outlook will be broadly subject to standards in the way people think about it or journalists articulate it.

Popular mindsets can affect the application of particular standards, preferring and highlighting some and neglecting or minimizing others.

Popular CL3_S-mindsets are typically riven with dualistic and polarized thinking. So they can be the route to exposing relevant CL3_P-polarities in a situation.

However, the prevailing mindset may also handle situational polarities by denying their existence and blaming externalities for tensions. Once the polarities are articulated, the popular outlook will be exposed to reveal any denials or other distortions.

Society's polarities are widely appreciated even if their relevance to a situation is not known or ignored. Explanations are likely to be felt as plausible and satisfying if what they propose is widely known and felt, and this would generally apply to polarities. So the CL3_P-underlying polarities are likely to be used or manipulated by CL1_B-explanations.

Those who emphasize underlying polarities are liable to use satisfying explanations for their purposes. Either the explanation will be used to argue that an important polarization issue is (again) the basis of a societal problem, or to affirm that a fundamental polarization is (again) being suppressed or ignored despite being the source of difficulties.

Any one involved in a CL7_B-contextual adjustment will naturally bring their CL6_P-personal principles to bear. These principles would never be used to block appropriate adaptations because there is respect for the need for such modifications..

Adaptations, in turn, should not be determined, much less agreed and implemented, without respecting the principles of those involved.

CL6_P-principles have a permanence and ethical power that makes them superior to CL5_P-convictions that alter according to circumstances and knowledge. So principles serve as a guide and reference and will evaluate convictions in use.

While principles could modify convictions if that were judged necessary, the reverse is less likely. However, convictions in a particular situation may cause a person to review their principles and how useful they are in practice.

CL5_P-convictions will either minimize or enhance the significance of CL3_S-tensions depending on the person's stance.

Identification of tensions injects emotion into the situation and that is liable to activate and intensify existing convictions.

CL3_S-identification of tensions reveals frictions, pain-points and conflicts which typically generate a demand for CL1_B-explanation.

Whether or not any explanation refers to tensions in the situation, they are apt to prompt identification of tensions because these are perennial social concerns.