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Are you familiar with Hegelian dialectic?

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Not really; never properly understood the meaning behind thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Sorry.

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That mantra does seem to do more to confuse than to enlighten...

Think about a very wealthy individual who wants to push society toward a certain policy. He hires the popular politicians from both major parties to argue different points back in forth such that the synthesis favors the movement of the debaters, along with their crowd of followers, into the desired position that accepts the new policy. This may include astroturfing whereby controlled activists get out in front of any real grassroots efforts to steer the public, clearing the path toward the desired synthesis.

I need to put this into words with a larger article that will help more people recognize that "partisan this" and "partisan that" are not what they appear on the surface.

A lot of spiritualists around the world broke bread easily with Theosophists, despite the fact that the Theosophists looked so absurd to anyone following their frauds and controversies. This signals to me that there is a larger network. Theosophy was just built to play the center stage role. I suspect that the Baha'i were invented to be bit players in that drama.

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