We all seek balance in our daily lives. Life-work balance, a balanced diet, balancing the needs of family and friends, balancing exercise and relaxation.
Balance is also needed in the world at large. Balance between order and chaos, right and left, liberal and conservative, light and dark, good and evil, peanut butter and jelly.
What a crock of crap.Balance between good and evil? That's like asking for balance between being punched in the balls and
not being punched in the balls, or a balance between being disease-free and terminal tuberculosis. Good and evil don't need to be balanced. That's a bunch of cosmic yin-yang hippie bullshit.
Star Wars said there needed to be balance between the light and dark sides of the force, but what was the real choice you were being presented with? Between a bunch of pretentious weirdos in funny robes and a guy who thought it was smarter to blow up planets than to conquer and tax them. They don't need to be balanced, they need to be institutionalized.
"Work-life balance"? That's just code for "I hope my company understands that I need to leave the premises sometimes." You're not taking time off from your job to rest, you're taking time off from your
life to work. You don't need to
balance the amount of work you do, you need to
minimize it.
You think "smart" and "stupid" need to be balanced? You think both sides of the argument always deserve equal time? No, if you're asking for balance, you probably just mean "the other guy is winning and it's making me feel bad so please listen to me".
Nobody seeking balance ever achieved anything notable. You want to be somebody, you want to do something, you gotta go to the
limit. Balance is for flywheels, gymnasts and chemical equations.
In loving memory of Noble.
He sought to balance order and disorder, but went astray when he failed to balance speaking out with SHUT UP.
