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| What appears imbalanced is actually balanced |
Thinking of something Mr. Swift said "If the tool works, then it was the right tool." Similar to what Ivan Throne mentioned in The Nine Laws, "It is not balance that the Dark Triad Man seeks, but appropriateness" This is a lesson I've noticed with all the speakers from the 21 Convention. If you looked at each life story, it was not "balanced". Ironically through their own trial by fire, they are very grounded and balanced. Each one discovered what tools worked for them even if it meant discarding tools they grew up believing would work. True discovery requires you to let go of theories that don't work, no matter how good they appear or how long you've held them.
Look at the optical illusion above. Your brain wants to believe the two rectangles are out of balance. Yet they are parallel to each other. Nothing is out of balance. The same thing could be said about today's societal buzzwords balanced and moderate. What if the illusion played on us is so powerful, the ideas of the Bible, high standards, and American tradition are now considered dangerous and unbalanced?
President Trump uses tools that work even if those tools aren't considered Presidential. To use a phrase from Scott Adams, "Effective, but we don't like it." The objective reality does not care about your feelings. Hypergamy doesn't care. The iron resting on the gym floor doesn't care. So why should you care so much if a tool you tried failed? The speakers of the 21 Convention are balanced because they measured for themselves the extremes and found a stable point in their identity. To use another phrase from Ivan, these men "tumbled and turned" with the world and discovered themselves in the process.
