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== Harmonizing Tensions ==
== 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 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]:
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 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]:


* arrogance | humility
* arrogance | humility
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* tribalism | cosmopolitanism
* tribalism | cosmopolitanism
* levity | gravity
* levity | gravity
* dreaming | doing


For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see [[Societal Superpositions]].
For a short list of current societal dilemmas that would benefit from this approach, see [[Societal Superpositions]].
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* Balancing [[Type I & Type II Error]]
* Balancing [[Type I & Type II Error]]
* Camping and Decamping
* Camping and Decamping
* Healthy competition and rivalry (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_Tie_Club RNA Tie Club])
* Creative competition and rivalry (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_Tie_Club RNA Tie Club], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens_(game) The Dozens], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_contest Cutting Contests], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_battle Guitar Battles], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam Poetry Slams])
* Ideas over instantiations
* Ideas over instantiations
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]
* [[Ideological Dining a la Carte]]