Reply #43: Goodness and badness of it? [View All]

[leanin_green]

It is not one or the other. It just simply is the natural order of all things. I'll pose a question. If a society rises up and seeks to force its vision of how things should be on the rest of the world, is that bad or good? Doesn't it depend on your position within that society? If you are one of the leaders in such a society, it would be good for you, wouldn't it? If your one of the rest of the world that is being forced to submit to a vision you don't agree with, then for you it's bad. In the course of events, as the vision that ignited the former society begins to lose something, becomes distorted and perverted and no longer resembles the original idea, and that society begins to decay, be rejected by stronger forces of resistance and so on, until the day that society collapses. Is it bad or good. You can see the arguement is a circular one that has no resolution. Such is the nature of all things. No judgement, no good, no bad, just cyclic expansion and contraction. Societies are born, they have their day in the sun, they whither and return to the earth from whence they came. And the seed of the original idea remains in the hearts of some men until the day it is tried again in a new form on a new patch of earth.