Some people have lamented the fact that I have interjected politics into the IMPACTS concept. Actually, you can’t explain how the world - and people - work without approaching politics. Politics makes most people uncomfortable because it is showmanship and duplicity–and these unattractive qualities unfortunately run the world.
Politics is a relatively recent invention–it came in with agriculture. That’s one reason why IMPACTS generally don’t mesh well with politics–the IMPACTS personality profile formed during the San tribe development in Africa starting over 100,000 years ago. But if we are going to improve the world, we have to find a way to change politics–not an easy task.