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From clear sides in the past, we now have those sides in sides (vaccines, Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, in addition to Republicans/Democrats), whereby we don't have a workable government. One angle to look from is how urgent it is for humanity to get a bigger idea of itself, not as rugged individualists competing with each other but as a cooperative society, and the the more breakdown the closer we get to a massive shift from separation into union. The Hegelian Dialectic is a basic model of system change I think about. The thesis is the way it is. Contradictions arise that don't fit the way it is. That's all that conflict and unworkability now. That's the antithesis. When the contradictions get so extreme that the thesis can't hold anymore, everything reconfigures to pull the contradictions into the new system and we get a new thesis. Then we're on the way to the new antithesis. That's thesis, antithesis, synthesis. There's a take-heart involved in tuning into how this works, where the worse it gets the closer we get to something radically better -- unless we wipe ourselves out along the way.

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