In October 2020, I wrote two blogs on Click. Bait. Fight. Regulate: part 1 and part 2. Recently, this topic returned to my mind. I’ve been wondering since whether this expression might be a cycle, representing Change. I think, feel and believe it is. This blog elaborates on my thinking.
In a healthy relationship, there isn’t much fighting. A new equilibrium happens naturally and in harmony. When in love, giving comes without a cost or prize. Nevertheless, a part of our mind maintains the ledger of a relationship (my 2016 blog). When our “books” no longer balance, something needs to change – for whatever reason.
The process of Click. Bait. Fight. Regulate applies to all of the 7 Belief systems: Money, Politics, Religion (all 3 in Power domain), Philosophy, Science and the Truth (all 3 in Knowledge domain) and in Love (also a domain). For latter, see above example.
We release a trial balloon (ie, click) and wait for people to pick it up (ie, bait). People may love or hate the idea and start discussing it (ie, fight). The fighting may become part of culture wars and (“social”) media and/or politicians will start arguing that laws need to be reformed (ie, regulate).
Trial balloons may either have good or bad intentions. Some trial balloons use reverse psychology (see my blogs) in order to achieve the opposite of its apparent goals.
Any Change usually follows clockwise rotation. Sometimes, change is counterclockwise or backward spinning. Recently, a planetary system was discovered in which its star (read: sun) rotates in the opposite direction of its planets (eg, Explica, PNAS).
Sometimes, we also use this phenomenon, which we call reverse engineering: we know the desired end result (ie, regulation) and then we think of ways to release a trial balloon (ie, click) that will stir up commotion (ie, bait and fight).
The process of Click. Bait. Fight. Regulate might be designed as a smoke screen for separating (micro) accountability (for the click) from (macro) responsibility (for regulation) over Change.
Last but not least, the phrase Click. Bait. Fight. Regulate has a strong connection with the phrase “the ends justify the means“, a concept “at least as old as the first century BC [when] Ovid wrote in his Heroides that Exitus acta probat (“The result justifies the deed”)”.
Regulate (1994) by Warren G ft. Nate Dogg & Michael McDonald Mix
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