{"id":889,"date":"2019-05-11T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/?p=889"},"modified":"2019-05-11T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T20:22:09","slug":"polarizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2019\/05\/11\/polarizing\/","title":{"rendered":"POLARIZING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-831 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-abst-02s.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIdeologs of the modern sort<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">think the way to deal with a spectrum<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(of culture, or anything really)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">is to make one end of it Required<br \/>\nand the other end Taboo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">based on the tenets<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">of a theory, law, system, religion,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">which is supposed to be an eternal and unchanging standard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In practice:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anything Living is temporary and changeable.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Binary distinctions are always dynamic.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Everything that exists on a range or a scale<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">moves in the space between extremes,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">drawn by both.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Between the poles is the current<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">of growth and of decay,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">of waxing and waning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Every tendency that manifests its extreme<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">begins to grow its opposite:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Reaction, Backlash, Turning Tide.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The balance is always dynamic.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Change is a given.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The most stable things in the Cosmos<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">are not inert<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">but rather cycling.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cycles absorb change<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">and generate adaptation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The cycling change births time,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">and time births living and sensing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If we say Life is Good and Death Bad,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">or choose only one pole of any polarity,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">we are trying to separate what is one indivisible.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is no Life or Death separate from the other.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Past and Future are two sides of a single membrane.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mind and Matter are one inseparable reality.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Opposites are each other.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideologs of the modern sort think the way to deal with a spectrum (of culture, or anything really) is to make one end of it Required and the other end Taboo based on the tenets of a theory, law, system, religion, which is supposed to be an eternal and unchanging standard. 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