“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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And the tendencies toward that do predate what Scott defines as the AHM era; we see it in Haussmann’s city planning of Paris in the 1850s, which we could label early modernism. But help me see how “what goes up must come down” type principles contributed to that sort of outcome?
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