If you, acting through your extended roles, lent yourself to envious behavior, then you did not spend the day well. You spent the day well when, by some slight or striking token, the world of your expanded ego quivered like a gauge's needle toward registering a fortunate direction or movement. At the end of each week, month, and year a person's progress may be considerable. If it appears to you that the problem of America is absorbed into a higher sphere of humanity, your notion is correct. Contradiction and its handling are everyone's problem.
Destiny is in everyone, too, so that a tour de force of destiny is of universal interest.
Just as we would not recognize life if we were without death, we could not have good without evil. Carrying the principle of yin and yang into the new theory of contradiction, Mao has given a modern dynamic form to an ancient structural principle of the universe, clarifying the nature of today's world. The human mind should take these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, transforming themselves into one another. I have explained America in the form of its contradictions, choosing eight major pairs of bads and goods. I have shown how all of these circulate as if the famous disc of yin and yang were in perpetual global rotation.