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RE: The Ramblings of a Curmudgeon or a Time to Lower Expectations
perhaps it's the zero sum game we all are indoctrinated into believing - i.e. 'winner take all' whereas if your not the #winner - then your the loser - there is no happy #medium:) @angrytwin
That is probably some of it. We have a tendency to look at a lot of things in those kinds of false dichotomies. Good and bad, right and wrong, black and white, and so on. When I was in college, I had a professor who suggested that the pairs that exist in nature contribute to this kind of thinking because recognizing them is so deeply programmed that we begin to see them when they are not there. I can't say if he was right but he made a good case.