Chapter Six - The Times To TRIAD

Chapter Six -
The Times To TRIAD

The question now is: when to implement a TRIAD? Once you have read this book you will understand not just the mechanics for implementing TRIADs, but also the reasons why it is important to do so. Then you will look for opportunities that meet your personal needs. You will also realize that there are various levels of TRIADs, some of which you will wish to implement at one time, and others at another. Here we will discuss just some simple opportunities to implement TRIADs, and in the next chapter get more into the actual mechanics of doing so. TRIADs can be implemented for various purposes. One useful and basic purpose is to overcome isolation of strangers at any conference. In this case, the TRIAD can be used to quickly introduce people and to give them a support group through which they can evaluate the activity of the conference and get more out of it. It is not only people attending large conferences, trade shows, conventions and such events that often feel quite isolated but also students enrolling for the first time in a university (or even a large high school) or inductees into the military. All of these people will benefit from a support group. The event does not need to be especially large for the group to benefit from TRIADs. Most any study course will benefit by being divided up into smaller study groups. The TRIAD is a natural arrangement for this purpose and the reason for that will become clear in the next section. It is very much in the interest of the management of organizations to establish and maintain the TRIAD mechanism. TRIADs will greatly add to the vitality of the organization and will increase the probability of its succeeding in its mission, whatever that may be. Moreover, the TRIAD mechanism brings in the 'loners'. These are the individuals who are the most likely to fail in the overall mission -- or to even sabotage it. One particular time when the TRIAD mechanism is especially necessary is in time of catastrophe/disaster. People are disoriented to a greater extent in such circumstances and need mutual support in finding solutions and making decisions. Individuals randomly thrown together into a large survival complex such as a gymnasium or other large facility, or finding themselves as wandering refugees will survive much better if they can be formed into TRIADs. Mutual support on any level will make them much more effectual and greatly reduce their hysteria, rather than their trying to face, all on their own, a situation which they cannot comprehend. From an administrator's point of view, it will be much easier to communicate with them and to organize them in a manner that can lead to amelioration of the situation. An additional level of organization that can be implemented is a temporary version of the LERN system described in my book Society AFTER Doomsday. TRIADs are ancillary and supportive of LERN systems because they are supportive of the individual. Without TRIADs and LERNs it is more likely that mob responses will occur or that mass momentum will arise under the influence of some charismatic leader. Orderly and objective analysis of their situation by the individuals involved is to be much preferred over emotional and hysterical mob psychology. Control and direction through reasonable dialogue has greater value than having to use, or at least trying to use, brute authoritative force. The latter requires the use of resources that may very well be put to better uses. Not only may those resources be better used but the masses that they are seeking to control may also be mobilized as a resource itself. TRIADs can be very beneficial both in temperate times and extreme times. The degree to which they will be effective will depend, in part, upon how efficiently they are implemented and that, in turn, will depend on the skill of both the implementers and the participants. From the outset, if one knowledgeable person in an emergency situation can get those trying to exert control to use the principles of TRIADing, they should be able to achieve some benefits that would not be otherwise achieved. When the time comes that TRIAD principles are more generally and widely understood, then the process of implementation will be far more rapid and the surety of success much greater. Time will tell how soon this new principle of social organization will be generally understood and adapted, or if it is destined to be ignored and perhaps forgotten. On a positive note, let us hope that you and millions of others will grab onto it and, if you do, then it may/should gain a dynamic of its own once its worth is seen. A Bridge to Cross by Sean Jacobs TRIAD Level Rating 5.7 Darius (A), Vanessa (B) and Tanya (C) are members of a community emergency planning TRIAD in a black community in North Carolina. Their community is adjoined to a larger, predominately white, community by an antiquated bridge. Geography has created the situation that should some disaster, like a hurricane, occur their only path of escape is through the white community. -------- C-(A.B) "We can hope nothing is going to happen, but we don't only have to worry about just hurricanes, but the way of the economy and if there was a social collapse. That bridge is the only way things can get into town." B-(A.C) "While our neighbors are friendly enough right now, we all know what happened down in New Orleans with Katrina. All of those people died… and for what?! They had a way out, but they were stopped at that bridge by the neighboring town's police. You know, the majority of those people who died were Black. I don't care what they say; I know that's why they weren't allowed to cross that bridge." C-B "Maybe we shouldn't cross this bridge until we come to it. It's just going to make a lot of people angry if we bring it up." A-C "So when, Tanya? They don't care about us. We have that dilapidated bridge, underfunded schools and our children no longer have the park to play in because it was taken over by the city for its dump. We need action now." C-A"I know, but I don't see what we can do. If there is a societal collapse of everything they will just cut us off and there is nothing we can do about it." A-C "We need to organize the brothers and do something about it now." B-(A.C) "I think we can make a stir, but it is not going to accomplish anything and just make people angry. And most of the people in our community won't support such a thing anyway." A-B "Maybe we could spread this TRIAD idea a bit further and get everyone thinking and concerned about it. And then, perhaps between all of us, we can come up with some ideas and action." C-A "That sounds better to me." B-(A/C)"I like that better also." A-(B.C) "Now the next question would be: How are we going to get people to assemble into TRIADs and to consider this problem?"