Per the magic the gathering color scheme this reads to me as blue arguing why it’s approach is superior to reds. (or I guess anti-red, white could argue that life would go merrily on if we could just lockup all the criminals). As lyrics go: “one step forward and two steps back, nobody gets far like that”. If you can prevent moving back and do stuff you will inevitably go very forward.
However there is still the issue that in situations you typically need something. It could be worse to do absolutely nothing than a stupid thing (like it feels that breathing is a pretty safe bet over not breathing in a very wide range of circumstances even if you don’t reflect on whether it is a good idea). Having an overtly suppressive mind control might mean that the general activity goes down (a kind of depression).
As with most good advice their negation is also good advice and a lot of the trick is to see where their area of applicability lies. There are solid points for red to score against blue too. Nothing happening means no experience and less food for generalization. One also needs to stay alive in the present moment to be able to live to the future. Very gradual steps might be too little too late for some purposes.
Per the magic the gathering color scheme this reads to me as blue arguing why it’s approach is superior to reds. (or I guess anti-red, white could argue that life would go merrily on if we could just lockup all the criminals). As lyrics go: “one step forward and two steps back, nobody gets far like that”. If you can prevent moving back and do stuff you will inevitably go very forward.
However there is still the issue that in situations you typically need something. It could be worse to do absolutely nothing than a stupid thing (like it feels that breathing is a pretty safe bet over not breathing in a very wide range of circumstances even if you don’t reflect on whether it is a good idea). Having an overtly suppressive mind control might mean that the general activity goes down (a kind of depression).
As with most good advice their negation is also good advice and a lot of the trick is to see where their area of applicability lies. There are solid points for red to score against blue too. Nothing happening means no experience and less food for generalization. One also needs to stay alive in the present moment to be able to live to the future. Very gradual steps might be too little too late for some purposes.