Robb Schiller

Sat­ur­day night I went to a con­cert. Melody and rhythm and the good­ness they entail were in bounty.  Music did what it ought to do that night and got my mind work­ing. Think­ing and pro­gress­ing thoughts in and out of con­nec­tions between mem­o­ries and trails of things I’ve learned through 21 years of mis­take making.

At one point in the con­cert I was the most struck with a inter­est­ing thought.

The pianist was evok­ing some thoughts about bal­ance that were trail­ing my thoughts into sym­me­try. I was run­ning through images of the most sym­met­ri­cal things I have ever seen. Then the vocal­ist sang the word defi­ance and this pic­ture got stuck in my head that cre­ated this phrase “the sym­me­try of defi­ance and compliance”

There is some­thing to be said for the power of the bal­ance of deci­sion mak­ing being rep­re­sented in a stripped-down sim­ple “yes” or “no”. Ulti­mately every choice is made up into the sig­nals of you com­pli­ance with an action or your stated defi­ance. A huge lump sum con­glom­er­ate of these choices are what make up our lives.  Yes to this and no to that. I really wish it were this easy in practicality.

Inter­est­ing then com­pared to this con­cept of sym­me­try.  Could our choice graph be com­pared to some­thing hav­ing sym­me­try? Would a more sym­met­ri­cal bal­ance of choices give a per­sons life bet­ter character?

The idea can only ever work on or in cer­tain degrees or in cer­tain com­par­isons of choice things.

For every per­son the — What action do you com­ply with? or the — What action are you in defi­ance of? can be changed and squab­bled or cunch-n-munched.

Sim­ply the idea of a person’s views cre­at­ing a map where their deci­sions they make are tracked based on yes and no and see­ing the sym­me­try of what they say vs. what they do would be incredible.