The Benefits of Dichotomous Thinking

Because, you realize, that in itself is dichotomous thinking.  What is dichotomous thinking?  Dichotomous thinking, also referred to as binary thinking, means that a person believes there are only two choices to a given situation or issue, that there are only two sides to the story, or that there only two ways of looking at something.  It is the realm of absolutes.  Black or white, this or that, yin or yang.

To the critical thinker, dichotomous thinking is the very essence of intolerance.  Which right there should warn you that we’ve left the realm of actual science and critical thinking, and have instead entered the domain of the social engineer and anti-moralist.

For the social engineer and anti-moralist there must always be more than two choices, for anything.  There must be a range of choices in-between any choices that are opposites.  (This stance, quite amusingly, being one of absolutism, hypocrisy masquerading as intellectually enlightened tolerance)

The intellectual of today has gone so far down this road that he has removed each end of all the choices.  Black and white, good and evil, no longer exist for today’s critical thinker.  Of course they won’t say that, instead they will say that society decides what is moral and what isn’t.  What is good and what is evil.  And this is very dangerous because what that means is that the moral man, is the man who most conforms to his current societal norm.  It means that one should not, indeed cannot, call a man such as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis evil.  Or bad.  Sure they didn’t abide by our societal norm, but they did by theirs.  They created theirs and made it manifest.  If they had won, it would have become the world’s morality.  And it would be the standard for good.  But to the critical thinker, there is no moral difference between what Hitler did with the Jews, and what Lincoln did with the slaves.  To deny this while holding to the pretense that society can say what is moral and what is not is utter delusion.

For the critical thinker and the anti-moralist the only good and evil that can exist is transitory, based on societal whim.  It other words…no morality at all.