New growth cannot exist without first the destruction of the old. NRK is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy. Zheher has somewhat of a mysterious background. His nation, his achievements, and frankly his past is quite vague. But Zheher belongs to a high-powered, highly dangerous organization known as the Red Lotus. He alongside the Lava Bender Gazan, the armless water-bender Ming-Kwa, and the combustion-bender-pally, arm-unks the strongest and most dangerous criminals in the world. And that a time ago, it took Chief Sakka, Fire Lord Zuko, Tenzin, and Tonrock all of their might to take these four down and have them placed in specialized prisons that hinder each of their abilities. A wood prison for an earth-bender, a frigid, tundra-esque prison for the fire-bender, a waterless prison for the water-bender, and they place Zheher in the highest of mountains to attach from society. And each four consistently checked upon by the White Lotus in specific, coordinated, and precise shifts. Their crimes are most likely similar to the ones we see them commit, when they try to kidnap Kora as a child, and try to change the world. Here in the Red Lotus philosophy is based off of Anarchy, but as we know, Zheher is greatly influenced by Guru Lahima. Though not explicitly stated, it seems that Zheher and Guru Lahima have the same ideals, but they approach them in a different way. Lahima is an aeronome at Guru long before the time of Zheher. He was most likely an anarchist as well, but a peaceful one, like Leo Tolstoy, the Russian philosopher who believed in the elimination of government's entire key. But by their own course, by natural development, not by force. Zheher's beliefs constantly reiterate the notion of freedom. An airbender mindset, but since he did not grow up with the Arnomat's pacifistic views and went around the Arnomat monks, Zheher decides to execute his plan in an aggressive fashion. The Red Lotus leader believes that if all nations and their leaders are torn down, the world will fall back into its natural order, its natural state, disorder. So his goal, beginning with the execution of the Earth Queen, was to eliminate all world leaders and the Avatar. In order to have himself foster this new world. With the spirits already living amongst humans, he believed that all there was left to do was to take down the government, and that doing so would usher a new growth as per the teachings of Guru Lahima. But with great ideas, you do need great power. So I also want to look at his ability. We can only imagine Zheher before he received his airbending and to what degree his abilities were. All we know is that he was a master martial artist and his threat level seemed to be quite high as he was equally as detained as his more uniquely skilled friends. But Zheher as the airbender we know completely opposes the calm, serene nature of the Arnomads. Ang and Tenzin to a lesser degree were very traditional airbenders. They focused on avoidance and evasion, using air as a defensive measure, rarely using it offensively. And conversely, Zheher was the only offensive, aggressive airbender we've seen. Zheher uses the gift of air as an extension of his martial art knowledge. The Arnomad martial art Bhagwajang is specialized for airbending. And when Tenzin and Zheher go one on one, it is shown that a freestyle form of airbending will always lose against one rooted in fundamentals. And later on, we see Zheher loses love, palit, allowing himself to become untethered by any earthly possessions. Like Gul Rahima, he lets everyone and everything go similar to the thought chakra, that is blocked by earthly attachment. Zheher becomes wind and he gains the ability to fly. All those Zheher's methods were forceful. The intentions behind his plan weren't inherently bad, nor is he an inherently bad person. His intentions were to allow the world to flourish in its natural state of chaos, but this very thought would have executed the opposite. He realizes that his thoughts are flawed and later helps the avatar in our own spiritual and mental journey. Zheher's flaw was that he was short-sighted and deeply rooted in his beliefs. Yes, for that instant, getting rid of the earth, Queen was a good idea, but he did not foresee what this vacuum of power later revealed itself to be. We know that this vacuum created Kuvera and her government. Zheher could not see any possibility other than chaos. If the world itself by virtue of Tolstoy's beliefs removed all its own hierarchy and proceeded by natural peaceful order, then maybe it could work. Due to individuals understanding their own responsibility to the world and to others. But by force, it becomes brash, unstable, and people's future actions and reaction to the situation would be unpredictable. Because freedom without responsibility is selfish.