In practice, I perceive INTPiquity as nothing more than a particular set of idiosyncratic approaches that happens to lie in my toolbox by default. It is obviously far from a complete set and must remain so as a full set would weigh far more than I can lift. I really only need what I can carry anyway, because I'd rather play nice with others...especially others who both have tools I lack and lack tools I have...than suffer an existence of isolation under multiple layers of over-analyzed abstraction about my square not fitting into a round world. I'm not going back to living in a world with only my own head for company. If it ever comes to that I'll invoke my final option and do myself in.
For me, the most discouraging aspect of Typological awareness is being relegated by proxy to a collective-consciousness that proclaims itself a Pillar of Intellect and then ordains...sages of malevolence...to enforce the infallible illusions required to keep it from tumbling. Ironically, I perceive our 'cult-ure of INTPiquity' as highly correlative to a form of academic elitism that could be described as 'Platonian' in origin and principle. Scavenging supremacy from logic and reason runs counter to INTP objectivity, and yet it regularly manifests to the darkest corners of INTP-oriented forums.
I would like to believe this idealism is an unfortunate consequence of erroneously-directed parasitic attractions to INTP-oriented rhetoric, but all it takes to shatter the notion is a quick glance into my toolbox. These tools that have proven so useful seem, almost as if by design, unnervingly simple to recalibrate for destruction.
It's been said that we live in a Fe world, and based on what I've experienced of it I can only agree. I've no animosity at having to love, hate, laugh and cry myself through life with all the other puny humans. Rhetoric notwithstanding, the characteristic I perceive in myself that most distinguishes me in an INTP context is my inerrant adeptness at finding optimized routes through systems. I construct nothing, externally administer to the operation of nothing, dictate/authoritate/legislate functional parameters for nothing...I delve into the center of processes already in progress and exploit, bypass, modify, disable, circumvent, implement and improvise whatever necessary to increase efficiency for whatever instance, interest, result, unique use, etc. I happen to be pursuing AthatM.
Parameters do not exist. Proxy constraints do not exist. Superfluous external influences do not exist. Nothing is concrete. The sky has only a vaporous illusion for a ceiling. We pass right through it and are without limits. Do not, however, assume the obvious. I am NOT a software engineer and find the very idea of relegating myself to issuing directives to machines highly insulting. I have a complete lack of interest in systems that are devoid of human elements. The impression I've gotten from most of the many practitioners of those particular arts I've encountered is that they are cowards, though they may very well have been fellow INTPs prior to becoming programmers. It would be rude of me to speculate.
So perhaps the most difficult aspect of being INTP is the realization that it predisposes me to highly destructive behavioral potential, simply because my natural inclinations are prone to be interpreted by the majority of others as insensitivity. It may be a Fe world and emotion may defeat logic on the simple premise of it's vastly larger populace, but I endure without having to constantly feed. To exploit this as advantage is to be merely malevolent in heart, but to acknowledge it as weakness is to be INTP. There's a reason why so few of my type exist, and it has nothing to do with excessive chivalry or intellect or any other redeeming quality.
It's damage control. Hence, I must reserve all my animosity for myself...
mutation of those 3 'ideals'... not exactly a deformed retard-baby, but yeah
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