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Thus old states are destroyed, transformed or replaced, and pre-existent states by their very existence, can be considered as antithetical and antagonistic to the conceptions and realities of new states said to be improved and superior. When goals and objectives are to be accomplished, or when force is necessary to accomplish ends, Antagonistic Opposition may be used to justify it. One could say that the concept of Antagonistic Opposition includes the concept of enemies, or that to have more than others one may need to take it from others, and it is perhaps best that they be one's enemies.
The fact is, that the world and universe are comprised, in terms or the senses,
of opposite qualities and conditions. These are such things as hot and cold,
long and short, up and down, pleasure and pain, wet and dry or black and white. However the concept of opposition is relative to interpretation. This
interpretation is defined by the concepts of Antithetical and
Complimentary
Opposition. Antithetical Opposition is a term created to describe the
interpretation of opposites as antithetical to one another and to human
well-being. For example extreme weather conditions may considered antithetical to human well being. Complimentary Opposition is a term created to describe opposite qualities and conditions, interpreted as not opposed and antithetical
to each other, but as Complimentary. Thus while extreme weather conditions
may be antithetical to human well-being in the short term, in the long run this weather may be complimentary to the sustainment of all aspects of the environment overall. Space as opposite of matter is complimentary to the movement of any entity. The cold of space may be said to be complimentary to the heat of the sun when a mean temperature exists such as that produced by
the orbit of earth around the sun. Complimentary Opposition means that change as transformation or destruction is complimentary to the pre-existent state changed. All natural change can be said to be complimentary. Change which
is not complimentary to pre-existent states is antithetical.
Antagonistic Opposition is a concept which is inherent in the consciousness
and perspective of Progressive Materialism, that is necessary for the creation
and use of material for the production of ever increasing living standards.
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