Vilfredo Pareto's Residues vs Derivations

Typology

Westering Sun:

"One of Burnham’s key influences was Vilfredo Pareto, a polymath who conceived social behaviour as shaped by two forces: residues and derivations.

• Residues reflect the deep, unspoken impulses that drive behaviour—such as the instinct to preserve our physical security, property or territory.

• Derivations, meanwhile, are the surface rationalizations that mask instinctive drives beneath appeals to morality, fairness, or other general standards. Pareto observed that every ruling class advances their interests through a complex network of derivations that present their actions as serving the public good, while in practice fortifying their own position."

(https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/woke-as-managerial-ideology)