From: Henry Soulatzkoff (fgr503@freenet.mb.ca)
Date: Fri 19 Dec 1997 - 10:49:49 EET
Dave Dunham wrote
>Oliver Bernuetz wondered about Carmanians. My uninformed take is that they do
>try to maintain a balance, but that it's hard to tell whether you're in
>balance, and every so often someone wakes up and realizes, "Holy Idovanus,
>somehow we've slipped to the Light Side! We must be more careful to include
>more Dark!" A few generations later, all that Dark Side emphasis makes someone
>wake up and start the pendulum back the other way.
I agree with Dave, here. The idea that an individual should maintain a
personal balance between Light and Dark seems to be a more recent phenomenon
(and the shift to this philospohy seems to have been introduced or influenced
by the Lunars)
But don't forget about the "Socialist Heresy", though...who "believed that
when society as a whole becomes unbalanced in some way then man should become
unbalanced in the opposite way, to balance it out; as if Balance were a scale
and men were ingots to be weighed....The Socialists were crushed by the Black
Shahs a hundred winters before the Moon rose into the sky, but their dangerous
heresy continues underground even today. "
I would be very surprised if this heresy was eradicated, however.
Henry J. Soulatzkoff, B. Ed.
Head of Computer Services / Program Head of Computer Accounting
Robertson College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
work rcollege@escape.ca
personal fgr503@freenet.mb.ca
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