Context
Have you ever wondered why nowadays there is so many protests happening around the world but nothing is happening… no traction. But then if we look at all the movements, we can see the most successful one have 2 things:
- An easy to understand common goal
- A symbol or physical distinction allowing members of the group to recognize themselves easily from day to day.
Think about it this way, the most successful groups are religion. And they often wear their religious icons on them throughout the day.
As for examples of great protests, we can remember Gandhi’s salt march and the American civil right’s act, Each examples showed groups joining based on race, which made it very easy to see who the members of the movement were.
When I came to this realization, I had to take a moment to reflect. This meant if I wanted a successful movement encouraging the 6 virtues of good, I would need to find a symbol to use. This would allow people involved to recognize each other easily AND work as advertisement for the ideology.
After multiple iterations, I settled on this version and I wanted to explain what it represents.
- Each virtues of good are spelled out to avoid ambiguity
- The white circle in the middle is the self
- The Trinity knot represents the virtues of stability tied together to keep society stable.
- The outer ring represents the virtues of exploration and the potential it represents.
Going down a rabbit hole
I was happy with this symbol, but the iteration I settled on didn’t have the arrows at first. But after looking at it for a while, I noticed curiosity, introspection and proactivity has a flow to them. Curiosity allows you to learn new information, then introspection allows you to understand how this new information can impact you and finally proaction brings it all together to improve things. I saw these virtues as creating a virtuous cycle, thus I added the arrows.
As for the colors, I picked the ones that seemed fitting looking at the colors through history and their meaning while using the 6 most used colors of the color wheel. And hey, look at that, the outer ring segment colors are a mix of the 2 primary colors of each virtues forming the closest tip. Wait …
- Curiosity (a mix of the colors of integrity and vigilance) need these 2 virtues
- Integrity helps spread the new information correctly
- Vigilance helps us make sure the information is correct and not harmful.
- Introspection (a mix of the colors of vigilance and stewardship) need these 2 virtues
- Vigilance protects us from harm
- Stewardship makes us appreciate our role in the greater system to avoid becoming selfish.
- Proaction(a mix of the colors of integrity and stewardship) need these 2 virtues.
- Integrity allows us to share the actions we want to take truthfully to make sure society is not hurt by the change
- Stewardship helps leaders make decision beneficiary for everyone, not only themselves.