Dichotomies, binaries, boxes, generalizations, conclusions, rules, finite opinions. They’re all appetizing. They generate a sense of ease, of simplicity, making us fall short to the belief: life is simple.I’m either A or B, and you are either A or B, and this experience is either A or B, and the future is either A or B. If you are not A, you are B, and if are B, you suck.
Life is not that simple. It’s really not.
We move from an isolated observation to a heap of pattern recognition to a lofty generalization in minutes, where this process should take a lifetime! We’re left missing the…
