The Golden Gate

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Here’s a sample:

there are second-tier reasons not to go to war. but there are also second-tier reasons to go to war. green doesn’t have a choice–it won’t go. second tier has a choice, so weigh the evidence carefully. second tier might indeed recommend war, it might not. but you can check and see if you are “merely” green by asking under what conditions you would recommend war. if you can’t think of any, ahem, welcome to green. still, the issue is enormously complicated, even through integral lens, so again, weigh the evidence carefully. The problem with this discussion at large is that it is entirely first-tier. blue says bomb the hell out of the evil ones; orange says, okay, but hurry, because it’s hurting the stock market; green says, no way, let’s be loving. first tier has such a hard time seeing big pictures, so it moves around within the partial value structures that define it. this is a discussion that i have stayed out of since doing WTC essay. it’s just a big first-tier food fight.