in this dynamic is the responsibility of the people. It will be what THEY make it if they are free enough from BOTH of the sets of precursors to USE them effectively for their OWN purposes.

Something that is often left out when referring to such dialectics is that, classically, it doesn't end with whatever 3rd way that manages to manifest itself out of 2 sets of elements. The classic hypothesis is that combination and reconfiguration of elements from 2 precursor sets results in a synthesis which IS greater than the sum of its constituent parts. As a third thing that is the result of 2 predecessors, past factors inher in a 3rd way, but its gestalt, resulting from combination & reconfiguration, is relatively new. That gestalt, of the past but not contained in it as everything that has preceded it has and does, constitutes a 4th term, undefinable, of limited predictability, more of the future than of the past, a becoming, a potential present that may become another thesis which manifests yet another anti-thesis, the 2 of which yield yet another synthesis and another ? and so on and on . . .