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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6755926" data-attributes="member: 6696971">A quick thought.  I think there are two areas where you can easily see this approach at work, one macro and one micro:Macro - Not to get into into politics, but a foreign policy approach by an administration can be demonstrated to be true neutral I think.  Addresses, indecision, and decisions lacking in coherent theme or tinged with duplicity that (a) render allies and enemies alike on unstable ground (whereas prior they were clearly aware of where they stood) and (b) make formerly clear lines of demarcation murky.  This approach might be born of a mind to move the overall foreign policy needle away from an interventionist model (the imposition of your ii).Micro - There are a lot of people who have a (sometimes unconscious) tendency to root for parity.  Both a confident person (even if that person is benign or better) and a mousy wallflower make them squeamish.  They chafe at dominance or paradigm-dictating excellence in craft/trade/sport.  In America, they passively oppose (or possible actively defame) the dynasties of the Yankees, the Bulls, the Patriots.  They want the little guy brought up and the big guy knocked down a peg or two such that any sort of "soft caste" moves toward being equilibrated.  When this happens, they celebrate.  If things swing in the opposite direction (rather than equilibrate), they'll find themselves rearranging their alliances.I think, if they could give voice to their issues, it would be that they often feel that human-derived institutions (that impose social order which they feel inherently advantage one group or person over another) are external to natural order and therefore subvert/corrupt it rather than them being a part of it.</blockquote>

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