0525 Institutions_C become persons writ large.  Individuals in community_A become institutions writ small.

Clearly, my discussion of third-person morality runs on a parallel track to Tomasello’s discussion of objective morality in chapter four.  They run through the same anthropological territory, but they stop at different stations.

At this junction, I am tantalizingly close to articulating the intersection for Era 2.

Here is the general version.

0526 The community has a slogan.  What that slogan is, I do not know.

0527 What do I know?

The community latches all the productive_2H and fun-loving_2V teams behind the locomotive of one big slogan.

Also, the community spawns its own teams.  These teams are more than productive_2H and more than fun-loving_2V.  Teamsare interpellated into being by institutions within the community.

In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in, the community (150) harmonizes all other social circles: family (5), intimates (5), teams (15), bands (50), mega-bands (500) and tribe (1500).

0528 What is a good substitute for more than productivity_2H?

Does an interpellating organizational objective_2H fit the slot?

0529 What potentiates an organizational objective_2H?

Perhaps, the power of deservingness_1H will do.  An organizational objective_2H emerges from the power of deservingness_1H that comes from serving the “me” of a person writ large. An organizational objective_2H situates the potential of the power of deservingness_1H with a recognition_2H that an individual deserves power_2H within the institution_3H.

So, the power of deservingness_1H is situated as deserving of power_1H.

Is that confusing enough?

I love explicit abstractions.

0530 What is a good substitute for more than having fun_2V?

Well, congregations are about more than having fun.

Tomasello discusses these types of issues in the subsection titled, “Culture and Loyalty”.

An institution_C calls the individual_A to align his or her individual perceptions_A with the perceptions of a person writ large_C.

0531 Surely, interpellation brings a common cultural ground_C into relation with individual cultural practices_A (or “conventions”).

Interpellation keys into Tomasello’s explicit terminology, including “identification”, “loyalty”, “legitimization” and “moralization”.

0531 Interpellation offers a societal identity_2V to the person_A who aligns his or her judgments, perceptions and feelings to the person writ large_C.  The Germans have a word for this.  The word is “denkalign”.  “Denk” means “thought”.  If a person may be characterized as a perceptive soul [animates] a reactive body, then denkalignment offers a way for the perceptive soul to train its body’s emotions.

0533 Oh, now I can start to appreciate what Tomasello means by the term, “objective morality”.

Through denkalignment, I train my emotions according to a worldview that exists independently of what anyone thinks of it.

0534 Here is a picture of the substitutions.