Stagnation is death. Life nation is motion, and lots of it. With motion comes direction. Society is like Brownian movement – a chaotic state seeking balance. But then, balance is stagnation, and must therefore be held in check by change. Nothing may be vital and living without these twins at odds.
We may not think only that every light has its dark, or every up has its down. We must see it as going up and going down, as going light and going dark. There are many such directions, and all of them seek stagnation. We must see, within that, those we bump into as we go up or down, and the changes, sometimes violent, that result.
I take it as axiomatic that the whole, as is stated in the Gospel according to Thomas, is a movement and a rest. We may all be actors on the same stage, but no one of us is the play. I, personally, take comfort in my small role. I am at ease there, and loyal to it.