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== Harmonizing Tensions ==

We recognize that reality presents many natural, necessary tensions. While much of the world fights mindlessly over permanent positions that lack all contextual awareness, we see [https://theportal.group/35-superposition/ Superpositions] and trade-offs. As it is said in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_3 Ecclesiastes] and Pete Seeger's song, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0xzyhoeu1Y "To Everything There Is a Season], and a time to every purpose under heaven." We do not accept the middlebrow binaries, dilemmas, and trilemmas foisted upon us by activists and politicians. Instead, we strive to find efficient frontiers that adaptively, [https://thebasics.guide/facultative-adaptation/ facultatively] balance these tensions through ongoing internal dialectic. Here are some areas that we believe would benefit the most from an emphasis on harmonization and [https://thebasics.guide/gene-expression-regulation/ Regulated Expression]:

* [https://youtu.be/LJxBnSyH0T4&t=7050 arrogance | humility]
* analysis | intuition
* [https://theportal.group/2013-edge-excellence/ excellence | genius]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790183104040963 inclusion | exclusion]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790183104040963 diversity | commonality/interoperability]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790183104040963 pluralism | leadership]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790183104040963 shunning/cancellation | redemption]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790184760799232 institutions | disintermediation]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790184760799232 egalitarianism | recognition of differential contribution]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790184760799232 listening | ignoring]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790184760799232 senior leadership and wisdom | removal of those who stopped renewing]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790185792532487 authoritative sources | heterodoxy]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790185792532487 welcoming strangers | prioritizing family and old friends]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790185792532487 ridicule | civility and comity]
* [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1432790185792532487 modernity | tradition]
* centralization | distribution
* transparency | opacity
* depth | breadth
* individualism | collectivism
* romanticism | rationalism
* objectivism | relativism
* realism | idealism
* [https://youtu.be/i1uOeQQ-xGs&t=217 tribalism] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1658486278772637706 cosmopolitanism]
* levity | gravity
* dreaming | doing
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1107499062180208641 tolerance] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1323032614962298881 prejudice]
* [https://youtu.be/1CCde6TAKdw&t=3411 conservativism | liberalism | libertarianism]
* game/frame acceptance | game/frame rejection
* [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1608654419465482240 femininity | masculinity]
* [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124338381809278976 violence] | [https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1181589353182580737 peace]
* love | [https://x.com/ericrweinstein/status/1124211380637224963 hate]
* leading | following
* left | right
* religiosity | secularism
<!-- * sobriety | inebriation
* wild | domesticated-->

For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see [[Societal Superpositions]].