Saturday, March 30, 2013

Self-evident Truths

A recent political cartoon by Joel Pett in the March 22, 2013, issue of the Lexington Herald-Leader played off the NCAA tournament, depicting President Obama and a GOPer represented by an elephant comparing ideological issues in opposing brackets. Obama's brackets contained Compromise vs. Ideology, Leadership vs. Caution, Tax vs. Spend, Openness vs.Secrecy, Environment vs. "Bidness", Talk vs. Action, Principle vs. Money and Hope vs. Change. The GOP brackets contained Rich vs. You, Church vs. State, Jobs vs. Get a Job!, Big Tent vs. Get Lost, Compromise vs. Ideology, Env(iroment) vs. Bidness, Guns vs. Butter, and Tax Cuts vs. Spend. Out of these opposing terms, only two are common in the cartoon. The cartoon's brackets played out with Obama's preference for Compromise and the GOP's preference for the Rich.

The exercise of picking winners between opposing ideological positions caused me to think about the validity of the comparisons. The only comparison that was seen by me as polar opposites was that of Openness vs. Secrecy. I consider the rest to be artificial oppositions brought about by the warping power of politics. My next musing was to think of opposites that  I considered as truly trumping one another. I call them Self-evident Truths, as in "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." In my opinion, they are, to wit: Substance vs. Form, Reason vs.Ideology, Independence vs. Subservience, Love vs. Hate, Humility vs. Hubris, and Compromise vs. Contention.

If you read this, please comment and add your own truths.

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