Thread by @StatesWarring

This is going to be my go-to explanation for Taoist dialectic from now on.

https://twitter.com/himbonomics/status/1398775685976662016

I've had to speak on this for real, and it's not easy. It either sounds stupidly arbitrary:

Or like some hippy bullshit:

(This is a totally unfair result of the fetishisation of oriental shit in the 60s and 70s btw. The taijitu is a phase space plot and I will die on this hill.)

Or it takes about three hours to explain verbally so people lose interest:

Or it's just me rambling about how frightfully important this is while standing in front of an uncomfortably fascist-adjacent graphic:

I strongly suspect that the difficulty inherent in getting this over while remaining remotely credible is an example of the system protecting itself.