Every now and then I realize just how delicately balanced our world is across the boundaries between this convention or its' opposite other: the pious balance the profane, the prudish balance the libertine, the liberals the conservatives, the cruel balance the kind. Any one of those elements will point at the other as the opposition, the enemy, the prey, and yet by the endurance of the competition it may be deduced each must be protecting the other, must be: it is so easy to see how many different ways any of them might utterly destroy the other, common sense demands the conclusion they secretly safeguard each others well being. After all, without the excesses of the debauched what point of comparison to show up the purity of the pious? Clearly, one defines the other, they are equally dependent on each other for their very existence. It is uncanny how closely the behavior of these collective entities mimics the behavior of the young teenagers just discovering the nuances of gossip and plot. Perhaps in some manner they are of comparable age?
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