Fall of the Middle Chameleon · from 3rd Way to Party Lizard
⁘ “Two parties at odds and battling. How entertaining — until it begins to erode the common good. Two parties with something in common — fixated on particular relative stances, each in their prisons. Suppose a third party emerges — harmonizer, reconciler, reflector — will it fall into the same trap? Chameleon between the donkeys and the elephants — reflecting, getting comfy with particular colors, enjoying the particular state... A stated lizard is born.”
Two parties at odds and battling...
Isn't that the spice of life, the drama of the ages?
Entertaining until it begins to erode,
compromise the public good, the collective.
They have something in common, these two parties,
they are both fixated on a particular view,
they are fixated on a particular subjective stance,
they are in their own prisons.
Now suppose then,
we have a third party,
an intermediate coming in,
a harmonizer, a reconciler, a reflector —
then will it fall into the same trap?
The chameleon comes
between the donkeys and the elephants,
begins to reflect, take on colors,
and in time gets comfortable with particular colors,
begins to enjoy, revel in the particular state...
No longer a quantum chameleon —
but a stated lizard.