Binary thinking
Nov. 27th, 2002 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_cobwebWe live in a binary culture. We are taught as children to think in terms of on/off, either/or, good/bad, black/white. Life, of course, is not binary. Thinking of it in those terms is unnecessarily reductionist and leads to missing out on important nuances and shades of meaning.
It didn't take all that many years for me to recognize my tendency toward binary thinking and work to expand my thinking. But it's harder for me to expect that other people have realized this too. I don't suppose I give them enough credit a lot of times.
It didn't take all that many years for me to recognize my tendency toward binary thinking and work to expand my thinking. But it's harder for me to expect that other people have realized this too. I don't suppose I give them enough credit a lot of times.
