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%SURRENDER TO EVIL DOUBLE BIND IGNORE OPPOSE FIGHT+790720
%YIELD TRANSCEND COMPROMISE UNITE+790720
%TRANSFORM NEW WAYS CREATE 790720
Many people do little about evil. Others go to
extremes in their efforts to identify and fight evil. The
latter seek to compensate for the former who tend to
ignore evil. The fighters fear that through indifference
evil will be surrendered to through acquiescence. The
fighters tend to become fixated on opposition to evil, and
tend towards belligerence as a stance in life. Others
seeking to minimize strife often tend towards passivity,
inaction, yielding, and smoothing things over. The
extremists provoke each others's extremism, and tend not
to be creative.
The creative people of the world are those who
successfully avoid each of the above extremes. They do
not oscillate between the extremes, they do not go to the
extremes. They transcend the dichotomy represented by the
extremes. They neither surrender nor engage in active
belligerence. They are not yielding, nor are they
obstructionists. They find creative ways of approaching
each situation. They synthesize the best of the
perspectives of the extremists, and come up with a more
balanced approach to situations. They do not merely
average differences. Their compromises are based upon
transcendence of the biases and presuppositions of the
extremists. They find ways out of double binds which
paralyze the creativity of the extremists. They work for
personal union, rather than for separation of the good
from the evil. They promote dialogue between those who
call themselves "good" and those whom the "good" call
evil. They work to eliminate unnecessary, needless, and
avoidable---tension, conflict, violence, fighting, etc.
They seek fulfillment through love, not through
estrangement, separation, alienation, etc. Their work is
not passive, but very active in ways which often are not
apparent to the extremists.
Creative people affirm rather than ignore, accept
rather than reject, acknowledge rather than dismiss,
realize rather than destroy, support rather than
undermine. Their work is positive rather than negative.
They win few battles because they engage in few battles,
finding more creative ways of promoting change than
through dramatic battles.
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