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.