Review: Determinants of Fitting In
Fitness as a Primal Need
When Darwin spoke of "survival of the fittest" he was not referring to physical fitness or strength. He was referring to «fitting in with the environment». That is the meaning of fitness here. Fitness is a survival issue at the biological level, and it deserves to be identified as a survival issue for psychosocial functioning.
Fitting in brings the dynamic duality of personal v social that pervades every dynamic Tree pattern into sharper focus. No functioning of any sort can take places without influence from the social dimension and social pressures.
What was not clear or insufficiently emphasized prior to this investigation is the way that fitting in is channeled through and . These activities are naturally dependent on the and t is notable that the method in general use in society is which does not demand precision or conviction, but merely consensus with an implicit feeling that mutual understanding is occurring regardless of whether this is the case.
PsychoSocial Pressures
It has been established that the Spiral reveals how the next higher Root Level and Domain influences the current Spiral Domain. See more here.
Cycle-1 essences generate the lower 4 Centres of the Tree and contribute their psychosocial pressures. As a group, they are dominated by acceptability, which is the overall psychosocial pressure of the .
These Centres control any (the Domain Field). Going along with change: i.e. level-1 performance is the concrete demand but all other Centres demand transcendence. Sharing the abstract impartial framework calls for selflessness, tolerating polarization calls for understanding, and effective adherence to the narrative calls for autonomy.
Cycle-2 essences generate the upper 3 Centres of the Tree and contribute their psychosocial pressures. These are dominated by a pressure for well-being, which is generated by the .
The effect is to make acceptability comfortable: and these pressures are actualizing in nature. Being acceptably practical, following reassuring standards (personal and social) and drawing on certain convictions will make a person comfortable about fitting-in—or lead them to refuse to fit in.
This Satellite is now completed.
Originally posted: 1-May-2025.