“Balance in the universe” concepts (karma, what goes up must come down, what goes around comes around, Golden Rule) are authoritarian high modernism in culture and myth-making.
The universe does have balancey things going on but they aren’t THAT crude. Takes artifice to force it
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These ideas predate modernism so are you saying high modernism embraces them? But authoritarian high modernist states reject many of these cyclic ideas; consider the thousand year Reich, the end of term limits, etc. they sure don’t Golden Rule
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I’m saying they reflect the same psychological tendency. AHM has always existed, long before it acquired a label.
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What is the psychological tendency? To pattern-match a chaotic world into a semblance of order through pithy maxims? That’s true of pretty much any human cognition, and it can always produce pseudo-insights of such generality as to be unpredictive.
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