THREE CAMPS SOLUTION

The complexities of life require, at the very least, a basic understanding of a certain phenomenon that occurs in the presence of any competative dynamic. The three camps solution highlights this phenomenon. Every energy and quality has an inverse that opposes it. At the same, you can disengage from that dynamic. That makes up the three camps. the first camp is the energy itself. The second camp is the opposite energy. The third camp is refraining from participating in any of that dynamic. How does that come in handy? Many times, people find themselves in one camp. They associate themselves with belonging to a specific subset. This means you oppose the opposite subset. We see this dynamic play out in sports whereby one team battles another team. Each team represents one camp. The third camp is not playing at all.

When you hold that a specific political affiliation, left or right, is better than its opposite, you prolong the game to the point that everything becomes a political battle. To think that one camp is good and the other camp is not highlights a glaring issue. We give ourselves and our camp a free pass while criticizing our oppositions. Our unconditional entaglement with each other makes this practice both foolish as well as dangerous for all. When winning at all costs is the goal, we lose our humanity and instantly become part of the problem, being separated from being the solution. The third camp in politics is not playing the game at times in recognizing that not all calls to answer can be answered properly through politics. Maintaining the feeling of holding a superior position over the other camp does very little in finding common ground.

The sentiment, "United we stand, divided we fall" highlights the importance of not making everything political. Unfortuantely, evil agendas that thrive by having us fighting against each other. We can better address this dark reality if we choose to work together sincerely. If we enter into a senario where open and honest conversations are met with great hope to discover newer solutions, we can suspend the game of winning and losing and play in a third camp, which allows for greater solutions than our politically competative system could ever bring about. The entire point of Thriveapeutic Communication Standards, for example, is to find people who can suspend the need for winning or dominating in order to find real, practical, newer solutions that last.

A conversation about the Three Camps Solution is available here within a talk about Thriveapeutic Triads.