Introduction to Maximum Advantage Collection by Travis B. Part 9

As a dynamic, living, sentient life process that is based on the underlying principles of self- preservation, we are all predisposed to protect ourselves. Against fear, aggression, violence, or subjugation, we continue to strive towards our own self- preservation. A community operates on similar principles. Taking on the dynamic life-like characteristics of its constituents, a community as the operational mother archetype is solely created for the self-preservation of its members. As a guiding operational principle, this mother archetype governs as well as creates the rules and laws that make up our civilization. These rules and regulations allow thousands, if not millions of people to live together in relative harmony. As international relations expand, and the global village develops in response to each archetypal mothers devouring hunger for products, these overlapping communities require external regulating forces to govern their well being as well.

The father archetype is now born. Benefactor to the mother archetype's relative power, the father archetype influences collaboration and agreement amongst the other global mothers in an effort to maximize our (and their) probability for preservation. As the mothers became more interdependent on their benefactors, the father archetypal governments, it was soon realized that the self-preservation of the father archetype[9] was also essential for our well-being. Without our father, who would provide and protect us from neighboring communities? As a result, the birth of the father archetypal governments on which we have become so interdependent, have also developed a self-preservation instinct. In the end the self-preservation instinct is universal. Whether a dynamic, living, sentient life force, or an artificial archetypal protector, the will to life has transcended necessity as well as logic.

[9] The cathection with the father archetypal figure in this analysis argues for one's need for security, as well as the impoverished process of individuation.