dialed in

Not a dialectic but a dial that can be turned/tuned to many viewpoints. There is almost no viewpoint that can’t be turned one-hundred and eighty degrees and argued with equal vigor and result from its opposite side. But it’s probably truer to say, though certain binary concepts and themes are often convenient, that every argument is but a point on a dial where the needle can be turned to register its value.

on the day after

After the disaster one finds two kinds of people: those who hide, horde, hunker down and try to defend themselves, and those who walk abroad and begin to rebuild.

conflict to confluence

There’s the rub, we need a dialectic friction to create the energy to move forward.

it takes two

When the dialectic has danced itself out.