| If you want to change the world you do not remove yourself from it, for you cannot change what you are not in direct contact with, as without contact there would be no influence. Even �indirect� contact is still contact. To change the world you have to get involved. As an example, lets say that you are tired of the greed of telephone companies (the reality or actuality of their greed matters not for our purpose here, we shall assume only that in the example it is perceived as valid). One way to get involved is to call up the Customer Service department and complain, but this will probably get you nowhere as long as the mentality exists that there are plenty of others willing to pay. To �remove yourself� might be your refusal to use your long distance service, thereby preventing you from making non-local calls to friends or family, thus hurting yourself more than the phone company. Or, you could get involved in another manner. You could download a program for your computer which would allow you to make free long distance phone calls via your PC, to the horror of the phone companies. In this case, the phone company (i.e. corporate corruption) loses money and patrons while some small business which designed the software and sold it for a small one time fee (and usually these small businesses are much less restrictive to human progress) generates more money and more patronage. The company grows as more people begin to use this method, spawning a host of similar businesses. And thus the world changes, if in no other way than long distance dialing becomes free. We all know how corporate america loves to hinder progression if it�s profits are percieved as endangered. It�s like the balance in Key 11 (appropriately entitled �Justice�): the two balances, or opposing situations appear distinct, but both depend from a balancing line and are thus complimentary. 0=2. Hegel calls this thesis-antithesis-synthesis. I call it chips and dip. |
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