A BALANCED VIEW
Too much unity: too little variety.
Creativity is smothered, whilst mistakes are oft-repeated.Too much diversity: too little integrity.
Commonsense is lost, as a thicket of laws springs up.Too much respect: too little vigilance.
Fatal flaws are overlooked.
Too much disrespect: too little forbearance.
Saving graces are disregarded.
To see both sides?
Adjust your viewpoint!
Notions that 'bigger
means better' or that 'more means mightier' are amply
disproved by the historical record of collapsed empires, or
fossil evidence of mass extinctions.
Conversely, the idea that isolation or sparseness have innate
advantages is challenged by the evidently precarious existence
of remote tribes or rare species.
Taoism
recognises that there is no unchanging, universal
formula for continued survival or success;
and avows that optimal balance is not static but
dynamic, forever shifting in reponse to changing
conditions or circumstances.
