Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang.  Neither aspect of life can exist without the other, and aspects of both are needed in any organism for life to exist at all.

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I have followed a path in the opposite direction to that many have followed. When I was young, I lived in fear and tended to be much more conservative. As I got older, and learned more about, I lived in confidence and tended to be much more liberal in my thoughts.

There is nothing wrong about being a thoughtful conservative or a thoughtful liberal. It's when we follow others without thought, that being conservative or liberal becomes a problem. It becomes way too easy to follow leaders that do not have our own best interests at heart.

There is a natural yin and yang to life. When we close ourselves off to things we don't agree with or don't understand, we get into trouble. But we can cherish differences instead of forcing those differences out of existence.

I pose the two following videos as a way towards understanding the yin and yang of conservatism and liberalism in an abstract way, and then what happens when evil people try to get us to stop critical thought and to follow them into destruction....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw

https://www.pbs.org/…/the-story-of-fascism-in-europe-pthanf/