World Socionics

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil , later briefly King Pedro IV of Portugal , also Regent of Portugal as the Duke of Braganza , was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1798. He occupies the unique historical position of being known as “The Liberator” in both a former colony, Brazil, where he is known as the father of its independence, and in the former colonial power, Portugal, where he was the leader of the liberal civil war which ended absolute monarchy. In Portugal he is also known as “The Soldier King”. In 1807, when Pedro was 9, the whole royal family of Portugal fled Napoleon’s  ( SLE ) invading armies, moving the capital of the Portuguese Empire to Rio de Janeiro, essentially re-founding it as the royal capital of all Portuguese dominions; an unique historical case of a colony becoming the seat of a colonial empire.  Pedro’s father, the easy-going King João VI, quickly adapted to his new surroundings and remained in Rio even after Napoleon’s defeat in 1814. The resulting chaos ...

I have recently watched the whole season of the HBO series Westworld , which is a remake of the 1973 movie of the same name written and directed by Michael Crichton. Previously, I  analysed  the 1973 movie, demonstrating that its focus and assumptions follow Gamma values, consistently with Michael Crichton's type of LIE . The HBO series version has clear Beta values and assumptions, as I will demonstrate here, contrasting them with the Gamma 1973 version. Note :  this analysis will avoid spoilers as to specific plot points, but it will contain more general references to the series' overall themes. If you haven't seen it yet, this analysis will not reveal detail plot points or surprises of the HBO series, but it will touch on the broader themes and events, which may be considered a kind of spoiler. Michael Crichton was fascinated by technological development and how the poor understanding of new technologies could have tragic consequences or be misused - this was a...

Jacques René Chirac is a French civil servant and politician who served as Prime Minister of France under two presidents; as Mayor of Paris for 18 years; and as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Along with François Mitterrand ( IEI ) he can be considered one of the two dominant figures of French politics in the last decades of the 20th century. Of Parisian middle-class parents, Chirac became a French civil servant in 1959 after graduating from the elite ENA graduate school. His big break in politics came in 1962 when he was transferred to the personal staff of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou ( LSE ), during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle. He quickly made himself indispensable to Pompidou, who nicknamed him “ Le Bulldoze r” due to his drive and abrasiveness in getting things done. Pompidou acted as Chirac’s mentor and encouraged him to run for the French parliament in the constituency of Corrèze, southwest France, whence his family originated. Elected, he was appointed b...

Otto I , known colloquially through the epiphet Otto the Great , was originally the Duke of Saxony and King of Germany in 936 and considered by some historians to have been the 1st Holy Roman Emperor, reigning from 962 to 973. He is known well for sustaining the efforts of his father Henry the Fowler in unifying all German tribes into a single state under the monarchy. By doing this, he had greatly expanded on the powers of the king, leading him to take on large reforms, such as the transformation of the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy to be under monarchical control. Throughout his reign as King of Germany, he had dealt with Hungarian invasions in the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, successfully putting an end to these invasions and thus became highly respected by the Christian world as a result. After conquering the Kingdom of Italy in 961, the territories he owned flourished under the Ottonian dynasty as patrons to art and architecture. During this period, he was eventually crowne...

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, usually known simply as Nero , was the 5 th Roman Emperor, reigning from 54 to 68. Along with his uncle Caligula ( EIE ), he is the most (in)famous of all emperors, with the reputation of having insanely set fire to Rome, singing while it was burning, and cruelly executing Christians whom he made scapegoats for it. From a scholarly historical perspective, though, most of the above is dubious. Nobody questions that there was a devastating fire in Rome in 64, and that there were rumours at the time that Nero had started it himself. There is evidence that the small Christian community in Rome was persecuted in the aftermath. For a Socionics analysis of his type, I will focus on what seems historically certain about him and ignore the “mad pyromaniac” version. Nero’s name at birth was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, his father a member of a family that had been prestigious during the Republic, his mothe...

Barack Hussein Obama is an American lawyer, book author and politician who served as the 44 th President of the United States. He was born in Hawaii in 1961. His father and namesake was a Kenyan student who met his American mother, Ann Dunham, as they were studying in Honolulu. They got married in early 1961 when they were 24 and 18 years old respectively. The three of them only lived together as a family in Hawaii for some months, as Obama Sr’s and Ann’s studies separated them geographically, with him eventually returning to Kenya in 1964, around which time they divorced. Ann then met and married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian student at the University of Hawaii. She moved to Jakarta with the then 6-year old Barack Obama to join her husband.  In 1971, Ann decided to send her son back to Honolulu to live with her parents, the main reason being, according to Obama himself, her desire for him to get the best possible education. Ann eventually also left Indonesia and divorced Soet...

Taylor Alison Swift is a female American singer-songwriter, currently 27 years old, who has an estimated net worth of $250 million USD and is considered to be one of the best-selling artists of all time. Swift has produced a total of 5 studio albums since her 2006 debut, when she was 16 years old: Taylor Swift  (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now  (2010), Red (2012), and 1989 (2014). She has garnered both commercial and critical success: as of 2016, she has sold a total of 40 million albums and has received 10 Grammy Awards , 19 American Music Awards , 23 Billboard Music Awards , 11 Country Music Association Awards , 8 Academy of Country Music Awards , 1 Brit Award , and 1  Emmy . Besides her music, Swift is most famous for her personal life, which often catalyzes her songwriting.   Most of her songs employ diary-like lyrics to explore the bases for her failed relationships with other high-profile celebrities.   Swift’s pattern of celebrity dating followe...