Do you seriously think the Passive Life Position sounds like a bad deal? Then think of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Steven Seagal, Céline Dion, Milla Jovovich — and Angela Merkel into the bargain. They are all people with a Passive Life Position (PLP).
Within the S-Theory these are people directed towards stability, harmony, increase and reproduction. That is, the people civilisation rests on. Granted, it does not move forward under them (that is the lot of those in the Active Life Position), but on the other hand:
The motto of the PassivePEACE TO THE WORLD, and TAKING PART MATTERS MORE THAN WINNING
All in all, these are the most peaceable of people, directed towards creativity, self-preservation and survival. There are plenty of more everyday terms for them. What dominates or prevails in them is the anima, the Yin, or the feminine principle. And, as you will have noticed above, among people with a PLP you will find plenty of men — very, very successful ones at that.
And it is femininity all the same — the qualities ascribed to women both by tradition and by physiology: the urge to set up a dialogue, to stay in stable relationships with those around them, to care for children, offspring and kittens. And, in the same vein, a love of cooking and feeding everyone around them.
An attitude typical of the PassiveIT IS NOT SAFE TO SHOW YOURSELF IN SOCIETY
Tough guys with "toxic masculinity" in the Active Life Position will never get it!
The PLP is formed, on the one hand, along the lines of sex (that is, hormonally) and, on the other hand, perinatally — that is, by a gentle pregnancy and a calm birth.
And since we have touched on the dominance of the feminine principle, there is a great irony in today's world (with feminism in the ascendant): the feminine principle, or femininity, is not studied at all in modern psychology — unlike masculinity, which even has an index of its own called the CNMI-46.
One of the few pieces of index-based work in the field of the Passive Life Position can be found in the writings of Irvin Yalom, who refers to the work on the locus of control by Rotter (1966). Incidentally, Rotter too added to the confusion we have today between introversion–extraversion and activity–passivity by calling his scale for measuring the locus of control I–E (internal–external)
Rotter's locus of control (1966)Does a person feel that the events of their own life are under their control, or that they happen regardless of what they do?
Does a person believe in their own personal uniqueness, or rather in an ultimate rescuer? Well, people in the PLP "place the source of control outside themselves, and that is where they look for answers, support and guidance", and they are more inclined to see their life as shaped by outside circumstances.
Which, by the way, is exactly where their strength lies: this is where you find the kindest types, the Depressive ones, and the most skilful detectives of the Sherlock Holmes sort, who will not let the smallest detail of the outside world slip past them. After all, so much depends on it!
