The Water Baron's Theorems, Part I

We know the truth of balance

We've got forbidden talents

Preface: 

I don't know quite what realm this falls into. It could be sociology. It could also easily be philosophy. It could even very well be math. I hope you'll enjoy how I structured these theorems. This is a very powerful tool of understanding, if you can learn to wield it. Just as a heads up, I use the word 'selfless' just as much as I use the word 'selfish,' so just be sure not to skim over these and mistake one for another, or else your understanding will be shot from the beginning.

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The Water Baron's Theorems

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Part I: The Primary Duality

1. Imbalance

Most people spend their public time being explicitly benevolent, good people in order to attract/invite community and functionality around them, while in their private time, they spend time toiling for their selfish ends, usually in the privacy of their minds. Most people are afraid to admit this because this society shuns selfishness. There are many people who actually restrict the amount of selfish behavior and thought that they engage in, which causes an imbalance in their consciousness/reality continuum, by growing their benevolent outward time and not allowing their selfishness to fully develop. They are constantly geared towards understanding reality, and their selflessness bleeds over into their personal/alone time (usually reserved for selfishness). They devise ways to be good and selfless, rather than selfish,  without seeking for other people to be aware that they are doing so, as making sure that other people notice would be a selfish act.

On the other hand, there are the people who spend too much time alone, or being made to feel that they are alone. This causes them to spend an increasingly large amount of time on their own thinking about how to improve things for themselves. The fact that the majority of one's time is spent thinking about the needs everyone present; which, by definition of this half of this theorem, is only themselves; doesn't allow for them to develop in the realm of considering the needs of others, i.e. selflessness. Their underdeveloped selflessness leads their selfishness to bleed through into their interactions with other people (exactly opposite from the first half of this theorem). It's especially dangerous when someone with too much time feeling isolated moves into a situation of being forced into continuous involvement with others later in life (past childhood) and they maintain their selfishness and develop the selfless behaviors around them. This causes people to act benevolently for selfish aims. You can often see through such a facade if you know what to look for.

Important concepts in this theorem:

Imbalance towards social time causes selflessness to dominate all the time.

Imbalance towards alone time causes selfishness to dominate all the time.

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2. Self Correction Mechanisms

Considering the first case of holistic selflessness, we can imagine that as the entity comes under physical stress, as it inevitably will as a result of unflinching selflessness, they will begin to ghasp for selfishness in their alone time. They will deny that they require the breaths at first, but they will become more and more unmistakably important as their selflessness wears on them in the physical realm. Once selfishness eventually takes control, as it must in order for the entity to survive (to get food, water, etc.), it begins to manipulate the incredibly sophisticated extroverted skillset for increasingly selfish aims.

On the other hand, As the selfish entity amasses physical prosperity, they build a capacity to become generous with it, as long as they are allowed by their mental health to continue psychological development and foster ideas of selflessness (which can often fail to happen). The healthy selfish bastard will realize that the only happiness he can buy is friends, and so will do very well in business. But I jest (sort of). Anyway, in a more natural state, their generosity would be limited and dedicated to their close social group, but in the business world they are all flakes and users and there is no semblance of allegiance, only agreements on how people can mutually abuse their associations. Or else they just be as tricky as possible and abuse all of their associations, a practice which seems to be vastly more common.

Important concepts in this theorem:

Through time, selflessness produces a need for selfishness

Through time, selfishness produces an opportunity for selflessness.

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3. The selfish-selfless fractals of societies.

The culture of abuse of social interactions in the business world produces a steep advantage for the selfish, and those who can be selfish the most intelligently succeed the best. In this way, the business world breeds stratification into intelligent and evil, and good and dumb. And where poor, good men are intelligent enough to fight for their fair share in a business environment, they are shunned by the establishment. I dare you to think of an example. The good men are taken advantage of unless they can fight for their fair share against the already established stratification, which requires a great deal of intelligence, and often requires a shock of selfishness.  It is only in these circumstances that good entities can win out, but it doesn’t seem to happen too often anymore.

In a more ideal culture, there would be no culture of abuse of social interactions, and the opportunity for selflessness would happily flow to the tightly knit selfless brethren. When they can understand that they have a group of people who always have their back for whatever they need help with that they can offer (usually in the form of consciousness, be it problem solving of social situations, or brainstorming on business ideas, or simply positive recreational experiences), they are happily willing to improve their social time with the utilization of their opportunities for selflessness that they build up (as in the preceding theorem). This, though it is a selfless act, does not defy the selfish root of this type of person, as they perceive themselves to be getting something back in the situation. In this situation, good, intelligent/creative people are selected as the ideal inner core of the self ordered group, while the selfish are also selected for intelligence/creativity to aid in exploiting the outside world, to provide for the inner core of selflessness.

Important concepts in this postulate:

A culture of chronic deceit, cheating, and distrust leads to a stratification of society where the most intelligent,  most selfish people win out, and intelligent, selfless men die out. Amongst the selfless, unintelligence is favored in this system.

A culture of small community, balanced interactions with friends and associates, and cautious cooperation offers a role for everyone, and provides mutually beneficial relationships of the selfless, the selfish, and promotes intelligence in both.

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Conclusion:

In the imbalanced culture, there arises a societal rift where some who see the errs of ravenous business advocate for the extreme opposite: A culture of complete selflessness, manifesting as pacifist, socialist, and progressivist advocates. Those who vie for either extreme option see the world dichromatically. They see too much black and it makes them yearn for white, or vice versa. But they don't realize that a zebra/gray society full of selfless and selfish people working together in small groups is obviously superior. The selfish tendancies of each individual are directed towards the outside, but on the inside, as a unit, they are selfless. As the polarized culture begins to fail, as it inevitably will due to the above mentioned dysfunctionality, there will begin to arise bubbles of intelligent community such as this, which will rise to relative maximums in their economic aims. This is the natural trend, but constant reinforcement by mass media prevents many from flowing in this direction. The polarization of information between whatever sides (whose arguments usually fundamentally arise from a selfish/selfless conflict) is more than apparent, as I hope you can see. In short, The most successful communities use both selfishness and selflessness in moderation, and never assume one holds precedent over the other. We are, by far, absolutely not such a community.