My problem with a great deal of posts that I see on social media is that they seem to be designed to place everyone on one side or another. Sadly, I watch as many people then appear to follow this "if you're not with us, you're against us" sort of mentality. It's one of the problems that I have with the way that Congress works (or doesn't work, depending on the day). However, there are rarely just two sides to anything in our reality; in fact, believing so is less than one dimensional thinking. At least with one dimensional thinking there is some level of variance along that single dimension.
The fact is that most issues rest in four dimensions, with not only varying degrees, quadrants, and sides, but changes in time as well. What may have been "true" or at least "worked" (or seemed to work) at one point in time can be simply untenable in another. Part of our issue as human beings is that it takes a great deal of effort to account for all of these different elements; thus, we default to easier mental packaging of complex ideas so that we do not overburden our minds with thinking.
I don't know if this is making sense to anyone aside from myself. While I'm certainly writing this because I'm tired of the "all or nothing" sorts of rhetoric that I've been seeing, I've also had several reminders lately from reading Antigone in class and watching "Everything Great about ..." videos at home that there is more than one, or two, or even a dozen ways of viewing the universe--or the people in it. We need to be careful of certainty in our thoughts. Without questioning or evaluation, we can too easily cement an idea that is a misrepresentation of reality because it misses all of the other facets behind the actual Truth.
The fact is that most issues rest in four dimensions, with not only varying degrees, quadrants, and sides, but changes in time as well. What may have been "true" or at least "worked" (or seemed to work) at one point in time can be simply untenable in another. Part of our issue as human beings is that it takes a great deal of effort to account for all of these different elements; thus, we default to easier mental packaging of complex ideas so that we do not overburden our minds with thinking.
I don't know if this is making sense to anyone aside from myself. While I'm certainly writing this because I'm tired of the "all or nothing" sorts of rhetoric that I've been seeing, I've also had several reminders lately from reading Antigone in class and watching "Everything Great about ..." videos at home that there is more than one, or two, or even a dozen ways of viewing the universe--or the people in it. We need to be careful of certainty in our thoughts. Without questioning or evaluation, we can too easily cement an idea that is a misrepresentation of reality because it misses all of the other facets behind the actual Truth.
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