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AAAND I've been reading law dictionaries. They're so much fuuun!!!

By the way, speaking of change and society, I've also been reading a bit of Hegel lately. He proposed that an excellent way to create change in a society would be to follow the following model, where the present situation will be called a "thesis".

The thesis needs a bit of opposition. This opposition will be called an "antithesis". There can be many of these antitheses. Fundamentally, they agree with one another, as the controlled progressive change would not take place if they did not; however, they are made to contradict one another on many levels, encouraging all to take sides.

The opposing theses, being antitheses of one another, inevitably clash and bring about a synthesis. This is the synthesis of the theses and antitheses, which becomes the next thesis in this dialectic and makes way for the next step. The next step will sound quite familiar, actually. The new thesis is opposed by antitheses of its own and as ideas crash into ideas and thoughts are exchanged and contradicted, the discourse turns into a cloud of dust, whence emerges a new synthesis.

Each dialectical step represents incremental change in society, which progresses towards a Final Synthesis - an ultimate goal of sorts that sounds as scary as the words "Final" and "Solution" put together. Hegel idealised this Final Synthesis, but Marx, who read a lot of Hegel's work, realised that Hegel was being an idiot for even thinking that anything good come come of such an efficient but, in the opinion of many, inherently evil mechanism for change.

Seeing as this post deals with a change-creating mechanism in a large group of human beings by exploiting their particular quirks, which allow such dialectics to function in the first place, I understand that it fits quite well in this thread.