This document contains instructions, forms and examples for recording "POV". There are three different forms that were used over the years.
How to use the form
This form is meant as a tool for observations of yourself for yourself. The act of observing helps focus your consciousness of how you respond to situations and interact with other people. Also, after a period of time, you can quantitatively tally the results to help pinpoint what is dominant in your practice.
There are two related concepts on the form.
1. Properties of your value (POV). The properties of your value reflect the internalization of the properties of the bourgeois values of the social system in which we live. The bourgeois values derive from the roles or methods that are useful or typical in capitalism to operate within the system. It will depend on your history and your family’s history in relation to the capitalist system. Your value can be maximized or minimized in any given situation or period of life, depending on what the conditions you are in will allow or support.
2. Identity (I). Your identity reflects how you interact with people or situations. It was developed as you grew up with your parents, or rarely another dominant influence in your development. The identities reflect the basic contradictions found in physics, in the real world; and the forms these identities take in capitalism. Your PC (Personal Character) identity reflects your identity with the parent who was your primary influence. Your SC (Social Character) reflects your identity with the other parent. Since these identities are how you learned to interact with the world from an early age, you tend to recreate these in new situations as an adult.
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