Proposition 054 – Resolving lagging circle civilisation

Tensions between changed personal civilisations and a lagging cir­cle civilisation diminish through change in the circle civilisation or through a decline in the operation of the divergent personal civilisa­tions.

• Explanation. Tension may diminish when changed civilisation elements are adopted by sufficient numbers of members and become part of the circle civilisation. Alternatively, divergence may lose its social operation, for example because individuals conform again, no longer express their divergent elements, leave the circle or are excluded. As long as neither process occurs suffi­ciently, the tension may persist.