Meta-Tension

As a follow-up to the Tension posting, I wanted to explain a little more about trust vs control. I have been trying to live from a framework of trust vs control for a few years now. My brother thinks the framework is too simplistic to handle the complexities and nuances of life (my apologies if I misrepresented this). Perhaps he is right. Or perhaps trust and control are the labels I happen to use for two universal concepts that manifest in numerous ways:

trust	control
internal	external
kairos time	chronos time
ministry	manipulation
adds life and liveliness	takes life and liveliness away
power of choice	victimization
community	entitlement
spirituality	morality
new testament covenant	old testament contract
grace	legalism
influence	fear

I'm sure there are more, but you get the idea. Trust and control are the convenient labels that I use, but I think there are these meta-concepts. I suppose some might call them memes, but since a meme is implied to be a cultural unit, I believe these transcend cultural issues and are weaved in the fabric of human nature.