tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post6321529371929839417..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): making friends with a hickgenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-16134954055931916082013-11-26T15:11:25.368-05:002013-11-26T15:11:25.368-05:00In other words, Huxley (following Sheldon) wrote a...In other words, Huxley (following Sheldon) wrote about the "somatotonic" personality type associated with the mesomorphic body type. Somatotonics (hicks) tend to be aggressive and domineering, but their path to transcendence is through work.<br />If it's true that we're a mixture of three basic types, then honoring the inner hick would be through work, craftsmanship, tying shoes.<br /><br />Interestingly, Huxley said that the job of society's institutions (secular and religious) is to keep the somatotonic tendencies in check, lest they'll bulldoze everybody else (that would be, the viscerotonics and the cerebrotonics).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780043240144875550noreply@blogger.com