What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.
When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.
