[Redbook4:38-39][19870712:1000f]{Clogs
to Clogs}[12th
July 1987]
19870712.1000
[continued]
I
cannot remember whether I have noted before the niceness of the
expression “Clogs to clogs in three generations” – except that
in the examples I have seen, it is five generations** including both
pairs of clogs. And yes, of course it fits the Outer Circle:
-
Poverty
(5th* Generation 1st*)
Sloth→ATTRACTION→↓Pride
→Simplification
Ordination→↓
(4th*)REVOLUTION
☼
ACTION(2nd*)Envy↑←Fragmentation
Complication←Avarice
Gluttony↑←DISTRACTION←Lechery
(3rd*)
Anger
*:
[The
notes below are with the Ordinal numbers in the ms. In the ms, the
Principles are connected by curving clockwise arrows.]
(1st):
Poverty.
(2nd):
Makes Money. (Learns to live on the money.)
(3rd):
(Forgets how to make money.) Lives on the Money. (Learns how to waste
money.)
(4th):
Wastes Money. (Forgets how to live on the money.)
(5th):
Poverty.
Note how nicely the mediaeval
hierarchy of Vices (from p13) fits this.*** I suppose Pride and
Anger might be swapped: they are not always easily distinguishable.
This Pride is that of the self-made man**** (or self-making man) who
believes, with self-fulfilling prophecy, that in his own terms he can
do anything. Avarice is the spur to build his wealth.
The first complication of such
men is frequently lechery; the next generation are frequently born
into it.# They live on the accumulated capital, increasing nothing
of material wealth, distracted by their wealth into the generally
superficial activities which will fritter it away: this is how the
fragmentation of the family estate begins. They are in literature as
in life frequently choleric in temperament because they have not had
to learn the need for patience. They share Gluttony with their
children: not just for food, but in appetite for many pleasures.
But it is their children who
first begin to feel the pinch, which is how Envy arises: of their
parents, who lived on the capital and dissipated it; of their
contemporaries who all seem to be doing so much better materially;
and of their children (as I know to my cost), who seem to have all
the benefits of a new start. But the one thing they do generally
have in common with their children is that terrible Sloth which does
{(often)} seem to be bred in the bone, although in fact it can be
overthrown.
And the children are back where
their great-great-grandparents began, able to start a new dynasty on
the Outer Circle – or a new life on the Inner? It is perhaps
easier for them than for others.
As with all such analyses, the
boundaries are unlikely to be as clear in life as in concept. And
the pattern is not
inevitable as it is described.
*[See
note above, immediately below diagram.]
**(or,
historically, as many as 9?)
***(Note how neatly the Vices
also describe the 7 stages of business employment (to which the
Principles were applied in Book [=Vol] II &/or III.) {Were
they?}
[└]Not
in all
the cases I have seen or heard of! <880825>
****and his father?
#[Generalise,
why don't you? <20160623>]
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