I chilled out a lot since I was younger; and the reason is that I’ve seen many things that I care about addressed by other people. There are enough people fighting racism, and there are enough people working to cure drug addiction. I do not see the
need to get involved in either effort.

There are however problems that not enough is being done about. One is violence against women; another is conversion to better energy technologies. I have been a part of efforts to address both.

Now to be fair there are any number of liberal causes that are wrong. There are people attacking international capitalism. International capitalism is the reason that 1 billion people in China have risen from abject poverty to decent lifestyle in four
decades. There are people who think that people in business are bastards. I have known a number of businessmen who were good people, and none of my bosses were ever bad to me.

I seek what I call the positive middle path. It is to see what each party is right about and combine it while doing away with what each party is wrong about. It is valid to pursue economic opportunity and technological progress; it is not valid to
blindly plunder nature. It is valid to strive for women to have safe life inside the home and fulfilling life outside the home; it is not valid to deny women beauty and love or to teach them to be horrible human beings.

Most of my friends are on the Left, and their concerns matter to me. However I’ve also known good people on the Right as well. Once again, I seek the positive middle path. I don’t mean any middle path, as the middle can be found in all sorts of
undesirable places. I mean the positive middle path that combines what the sides are right about and confronts what they are wrong about.

I want to see both economic prosperity and sane treatment of the environment. I want to see both better treatment of women by men and better treatment of men by women. There is no contradiction between such things; it is the task of human intelligence to
make both possible.

It is toward solving problems like these that human intelligence must direct itself.

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I seek the best of all possible worlds, and I have a strategy as to how to accomplish this. It is through what I call the positive middle path. I don’t mean just any middle path, as the middle can be found in all sorts of undesirable places. I mean the
positive middle path, that combines what each side is right about while confronting what each side is wrong about.

In conflicts such as between business and labor, or men and women, or nature and civilization, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are capable of both. Business is right to pursue prosperity and opportunity; labor is right to protect
itself from predatory and corrupt business practices. Women have right to pursue a safe life inside the home and a fulfilling life outside the home; men have right to protect themselves from cruelty and nastiness by feminists. It is right to pursue
scientific and technological progress; it is also right to protect nature from blind and irreversible destruction.

Well isn’t this eating your cake and having it too? No, it is using intelligence to achieve win-win scenarios. In all these cases, we are dealing with powers that can go either right or wrong. In dealing with powers that can either go right or wrong,
it is not right to take either side. It is right to see who is right and about what, and to relate to the situation from that premise.

Both business and labor can be good or bad. Both men and women can be good or bad. Both nature and civilization can be good or bad. Neither exists from the standpoint of moral judgment. All exist from the standpoint of reality. When dealing with things
that exist from the standpoint of reality, independent of moral judgment, the solution is to see who is right and about what. And it is to empower the first while confronting the second.

When that is not done, we see hideous outcomes. What we see is empowering one side in all sorts of corrupt and tyrannical practices while oppressing the other side even in its ability to produce good results. We see this both with people who are only pro-
business and with people who are only pro-labor. We see this both with people who are only pro-woman and with people who are only pro-man. We see this both with people who are only pro-nature and with people who are only pro-civilization. In all cases a
great wrong is done.

In all these cases, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are capable of both. The correct solution is to see what each side is right about and support it, while also seeing what each side is wrong about and confronting it.

I therefore recommend a positive middle path. And that stands to lead to the best world possible.

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I seek the best of all possible worlds, and I have a strategy as to how to accomplish this. It is through what I call the positive middle path. I don’t mean just any middle path, as the middle can be found in all sorts of undesirable places. I mean the
positive middle path, that combines what each side is right about while confronting what each side is wrong about.

In conflicts such as between business and labor, or men and women, or nature and civilization, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are capable of both. Business is right to pursue prosperity and opportunity; labor is right to protect
itself from predatory and corrupt business practices. Women have right to pursue a safe life inside the home and a fulfilling life outside the home; men have right to protect themselves from cruelty and nastiness by feminists. It is right to pursue
scientific and technological progress; it is also right to protect nature from blind and irreversible destruction.

Well isn’t this eating your cake and having it too? No, it is using intelligence to achieve win-win scenarios. In all these cases, we are dealing with powers that can go either right or wrong. In dealing with powers that can either go right or wrong,
it is not right to take either side. It is right to see who is right and about what, and to relate to the situation from that premise.

Both business and labor can be good or bad. Both men and women can be good or bad. Both nature and civilization can be good or bad. Neither exists from the standpoint of moral judgment. All exist from the standpoint of reality. When dealing with things
that exist from the standpoint of reality, independent of moral judgment, the solution is to see who is right and about what. And it is to empower the first while confronting the second.

When that is not done, we see hideous outcomes. What we see is empowering one side in all sorts of corrupt and tyrannical practices while oppressing the other side even in its ability to produce good results. We see this both with people who are only pro-
business and with people who are only pro-labor. We see this both with people who are only pro-woman and with people who are only pro-man. We see this both with people who are only pro-nature and with people who are only pro-civilization. In all cases a
great wrong is done.

In all these cases, neither side is good and neither side is bad. Both are capable of both. The correct solution is to see what each side is right about and support it, while also seeing what each side is wrong about and confronting it.

I therefore recommend a positive middle path. And that stands to lead to the best world possible.

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