When we talk about the pendulum swinging, you probably imagine it swinging in a very simple back and forth: it goes Left, it comes back Right to roughly the same extreme. This is not how the dialectical operative understands or uses the pendulum swing. The gif below (above) is closer.

The pendulum might be moving back and forth in its own reference frame, but the dialectical operators (Hermeticists) are moving the reference frame so that it's going somewhere. The Left-Right swing allows it to avoid resistance that inevitably mounts against either extreme.

This tactic is based off the Hermetic principles of transformation, so it's something they know they're doing with specific intention. The idea is to move history toward its intended end (Platonic perfection) not in a straight line but in a spiral (or by sinusoid, snakey).

The key is understanding that the pendulum is swinging, but the Hermeticists have control of the bob (or reference frame in other ways)...

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