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The Untouchable Class as indicated in the concept of Antipodal Associative Paradigm, serves as a Comparative Base from which the lower classes can assess their own degree of consequence by adding up from. The poor person without much education, is able to feel better off and superior to some racial minority, immigrant or sanitation worker. Since the Liberal individual uses the less developed as the basis for comparison, the tendency is to be more sympathetic to the poor, uneducated, downtrodden and exploited.

The Pseudo-conservative individual, tends to assess value by comparison from the top or what is developed, refined, perfected, greatest, most or supreme. The millionaire would have a greater tendency to identify and compare the self, with a billionaire than to a working class person. Because the Pseudo-conservative enjoys and admires, or would like to ascend to elite status, the tendency is to look up to, identify and be sympathetic with those higher on the scale than they.

In terms of social hierarchy, the Metaphysical Ideal as Comparative Base, may take the form Monarchy or some similar hierarchal system, in which the value of the individual is assessed as so many degrees less from archetypal positions such as kings, queens, dukes and dutches or viceroys etc.

The Right and Left Wings as political manifestations, exemplify the opposing attributes as described by the concept of the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative.

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