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“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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If anything, it seems to me that AHM rejects balance in the universe, in statist planning, in architecture, in expansionism, in power relations between state and citizens. Can you guide me through some concrete examples so I can see where you’re coming from?
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Ok, so the desire to realize symmetry and balance as a driving principle can be found in AHM. It can also be found in lots of traditions independent of, predating, or opposed to AHM. Can you give a specific example from, say, architecture of how AHM expresses this trait?
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I’ve read it; my point is that for every example of postagricultural statist AHM control through symmetry-projecting principles, the same principles can be found in service of non-AHM social organizations, so this argument may be conflating AHM tendencies with human tendencies.