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Good vs. Bad. Male vs. Female. Progressive vs. Conservative. Human vs. More-Than-Human. Animate vs. Inanimate. Binaries are so often presented as the default framework for engaging with the news, each other, and the world. Binary thinking tends to suck nuance out of a conversation. In the process, we stand on two sides of a perspective and are asked to bridge the chasm. Sometimes this chasm feels unbridgeable. Sometimes the chasm feels big enough to suggest we might be living in different realities, different worlds. When binaries isolate us from others through conceptual chasms, it becomes much easier to define ourselves against others. And it becomes much easier to other others. Are there any actual binaries? Are there times using binary thinking is helpful? How does binary thinking shape how we are able to relate?
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