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The Relative Power Dynamic
by kiwi Saturday, Apr 17 2010, 10:23pm
international / social/political / opinion/analysis

"If not for the notion of beauty there would be no ugliness. If not for the notion of good there would be no evil. Polarities alternate one with the other [qualify each other] and are mutually bound in [perpetual conflict] opposition." -- Lao tzu.

It is true, we only know a thing by contrast, as it is defined by its opposite.

Symbolic double-axe

Meaning is eternally bound by mutual opposition (conflict).

Thus, we define beauty against ugliness, life against death, good against evil etc; we cannot define anything culturally without relative comparisons or oppositions. Thus Gods (good) are defined against their opponents, Devils (evil) – antagonists and protagonists share EQUAL status/authority/power in relationship.

It was put succinctly almost 3000 years ago by Lao Tzu, an exceptional poet/sage: “but for the notion of beauty there would be no ugliness.” [Where would America be today without “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists.” A simplistic but clearly manufactured “evil-good” dichotomy of enemies and allies?]

Today America is without peer as the world’s leading civilian killing, terrorist nation -- meaning, however, has interchanged simply by shifting point of view; hence the USA has never been held accountable for committing the most heinous crimes known to humankind -- the mass murder of 3-4 million innocent civilians in Indo-China and 1 million in Iraq and Central Asia -- yet its ‘opponents,’ accused of far lesser crimes, have been hauled before the disgracefully PARTIAL Hague Courts and prosecuted!

Never before has the general intelligence of the world been so offended by a single nation – America!

America’s contempt for the world is beyond measure; yet that nation ‘would (unsuccessfully) attempt to rule the world!’

Unaware that its transparent arguments and violent methods HAVE FAILED, America, as is evidenced by its internal mass media, has become its own worst enemy by POLARISING itself in its own destructive (binary) power dynamic. External dynamics internalise when they fail to gain traction or affect the chosen target -- binaries rotate and interchange radically. Unless another new dynamic is introduced, final destruction is assured – social implosion combined with almost universal external opposition spell inevitable annihilation for the USA.

[The above simple observations and deductions are only 'rocket science' to Americans.]