IMSA — the Capitalist Society
IMSA is a society that emerges naturally among humans and other animals. The goal of any animal is survival; humans refine that imperative by developing newer and better technology through instinctive action, cultivating beauty and symbolic meaning by recognizing patterns, reflecting inwardly to understand moral patterns, and pursuing rationally planned change in the world. These four utilities—physical action, metaphysical reality, subjective insight, and objective action—rise above all others to define what I call the Capitalist or IMSA society.
For most of human history, societies were built on forceful expansion and cultural tradition, bound by emotionally charged rituals and devotion to a supreme leader or deity. The Enlightenment introduced democracies that prized comfort, self-expression, objective knowledge, and free discourse, yet these democracies ultimately proved unable to defend themselves without a survival focus. When it became clear that pure democracy could not endure, we “went back to basics,” preserving democratic structure but reinjecting survival and innovation at the core of social life. The result was capitalism: businesses replaced families, market competition supplanted tribal warfare, and stocks overtook land as stores of wealth.
In the old times, people fought for kin and family; now they go to work. Where tribes once clashed, businesses now compete. IMSA societies are emotionless, caring not for personal comfort. You must join a business, fight for it, and it will reward you; if you are weak or incapable, you are simply left behind.
Comfort, culture, and knowledge have become mere means to survival and profit. Those who cannot keep pace are discarded. Corporate loyalty and career rites supplant marriage ceremonies and religious festivals, and businesses create norms that once belonged to kin or religious groups. Only deliberate actions that yield measurable returns and pattern insights that anticipate market trends matter; everything else serves as an instrumental step toward profit.
Even some Muslim thinkers find IMSA values sympathetic—trade, personal responsibility, and rational action—though many majority-Muslim states remain hierarchical in practice. My model groups all sixteen personality types by their top four utilities into four societies; for IMSA, these are types focused on instinctive action, pattern mastery, introspective valuation, and objective agency. This four-fold division shows that capitalism is not merely an economic system but a civilization built on survival, innovation, introspection, and rational agency.
In today’s world, work has become our ritual, markets our militia, and share prices our scripture. Businesses wield more authority than states, and the fear of being left behind fuels both entrepreneurial drive and social unrest. Understanding IMSA illuminates why modern life revolves around profit and efficiency, often at the expense of community, tradition, and personal comfort. By re-embedding survival at the heart of democracy, capitalism turns the free market into the ultimate arbiter of human value.
