Nerd Church - Duality's Duel

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction - Newton's Third Law of Physics

Does that work in society too? If we swing in one direction, is there an equal swing in the other direction?

Does one extreme lead to another? And can we ever be happy with extremes?

(I'm gonna be honest, this is one of those posts that wanders here and there. Because I'm kinda just musing here, there is no plan.

Those who need there to be a plan may wanna bail out now. Those who like life on the Bookish Rebel side, come along for the ride. #JustSaying)

So, if there's a swing towards equality and fairness - as un-extreme as that seems to most of us - there's also a pushback, like the alt-right and all those Nazi a**holes.

(Don't worry, I'm gonna try and refrain from going on a full-on anti-Nazi rant. I've had to do enough of those over the past few years, and sadly there are probably more in my future too.)

In some ways, the price of progress is that awful pushback. It shouldn't be, but it is.

Of course, it works the other way too. If something bad happens, there's a push against it. There's resistance.

Are the forces ever equal though?

Not in physics - I totally can't change the physics (yet...); the physics is what it is - but in the societal, philosophical, type thingummy? Are they equal?

Or does it work differently? Does there have to be one thing in control, as they fight against each other in an eternal struggle a la Star Wars?

I have definitely noticed one thing though: if you go far enough to the left, you end up at the right.

The world is round, after all.

And I reckon that's why communists so often become dictators - because even the middle ground has an opposite number, and that opposite is the common ground between the extreme-right, and the extreme-left.

So I don't know, are there opposites? Or are there just two sides of the same coin?

Are we living in a Batman/Joker scenario, just an inch from turning from one to the other?

Because the lines are worryingly blurred sometimes, in this weird, wonderful, terrible, world of ours.

I guess I think about these lines, the way that differences are really similarities, and vice versa, a lot more than a lot of people.

Maybe that's what happens when you live the life of a walking contradiction! Lol.

After all, I've learned that there's a balance - and a lack of balance - to everything.

And I realise that that sounds weird, but I live a life of being gay, straight, ace, bi, pan, etc. all at the same time, while simultaneously *not* being those things.

Sometimes opposite things are equally true.

So the right and the left? They meet. In both directions - the moderate and the extreme. They're both the same and totally opposite.

And maybe we all need to figure that out before we can make *true* progress.

Then again, maybe not. 😉

So, having succeeded in literally talking about everything and nothing, and saying everything and nothing about them, I turn to you, my nerdlets.

What do you think about the balance of this world we're all in? Has my parents' hippie-ness finally got to me? (The answer to that one is probably yes!) Talk to me!

(Also, I apologise sincerely for breaking your collective brains! Sorry!)

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