Rule of Thirds

Although the "rule of thirds" is a frequently used recommendation in visual art, the rule used here is completely different.

Here we go.

When you criticize or judge someone, please remember you may do that only if you are at least 3 levels "smarter" than the criticizee.

L1. If you are only one level smarter, you are opposing his or her opinion.
L2. If you are an additional level smarter, you are agreeing with what he or she said, but your aspect is different - a point of view that integrates both the supporting and countering arguments.
L3. If you are an extra level smarter, you understand the arguments (level 0), the disproofs (level 1) the integrated approach (level 2) and you are also able to change the viewpoint and restructure all previous levels. In other words, you are regarding the whole question from a metalevel. You can break out of the framework imposed by the original question.

This is the rule of thirds.

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You can relate this reasoning to Socrates's Dialectic. Level 0 is thesis, Level 1 is antithesis, Level 2 corresponds to synthesis and Level 3 is metathesis.


The sun shines brightly.
Deaf microscopic corpuscules
Burn my aging face.