Message from @Grenade123
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attempting to remove extremes is always going to be a receipy for deseaster
life is constantly in flux and the amount of force required to maintain an strict status quo is usually frowned upon. it is better to make a society in which all people in it have the power to pull the pendulum back in their direction
this way when things start to get too close to one extreme or the other, the opposite side will be able to galvanize and pull things back towards them
thus things will fluctuate around the desired balance point, and most of the time be within some acceptable deviation for most people in the system.
I concur
Generational Pendulums
One for every issue no matter how minor
Sometimes they sync up
Sometimes the gay bot stops me from speaking
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so when mao has pendulum hitler should be able to pull it back, so that everyone can commit genocide their own way
everyone wins
actually, both of them are socialist
yeah but nazis were anti communists, right?
true... although on what issues idk
fighting over who gets to genocide the jews perhaps
The Oakland Raiders are anti Pittsburgh Steelers, and vice versa.
They're not both anti-football.
its kind of my point that both sides are similar, but they are still opponents, so you could end up with a pendulum swinging between two flavors of insanity
but both are authoritarian and socialist, and the extreme of both. and, more importantly, tried to keep the pendulum on their side
well consider the democrats and republicans pendulum
this is what happens when you want to stop the pendulum from swinging.
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@NativeInterface correct me if i'm wrong, but free market capitalism is basically based on this idea. If a company gets too greedy, competition will spring up to pull the pendulum back, preventing monopoly. Thus, things will ebb and flow back and forth, hopefully, the theory is, near a happy center.
i guess you could look at it that way, but i don't. a pendulum only moves in two directions so it represents a dichotomy, so i wouldn't use that metaphor.
but i get that you're arguing for the ebb and flow part of the pendulum, so i see what you're saying.
i just think false dichotomies and middle ground fallacies is the reason the u.s. is shit
it depends on the context of the pendulum i guess
the happy center of republicrats foreign politics of ponies and rainbows
does a pendulum only move in 2 directions?
i was thinking of a grandfather clock i guess
a pendulum is a weight at the end of a string fixed to a point. if left to swing, at least here on earth, it will slowly move around in a circle. Each time it swings back and forth, it is never quite hitting the same spot as before as the earth rotates under it.
i guess each democratic and republican president are less democratic and republican than the previous one. i don't know if political parties have any principles anymore.
or if they ever did
i don't think they ever did. some candidates tow party lines better than others, but trump ran as a republican... but is he a really a republican?