The Benefits of Dichotomous Thinking
by For today’s intellectual and critical thinker, dichotomous thinking is the boogeyman responsible for all of the world’s ills. But is it really?
So what’s the deal?
There is nothing wrong with dichotomous thinking. It’s what we do. What is wrong is the agenda that has pulled on the mask of intellectualism and seeks to promote it’s own anti-moralist indoctrination. Our public education system is much to blame for this. Professors teaching students to think in a certain manner, hold a particular mindset, and then stroking their egos by telling them how much more intelligent and tolerant they are than others. So the next time someone hauls off and asks you where your critical thinking skills are, take it as an insult from someone with a bloated sense of their own intelligence.
What can you do?
Educate yourself. Understand that these are buzzwords for people with a particular mindset, and that they probably don’t have much clue as to what they’re really talking about.
Get a book on logic, and logical fallacies. Learn what a strawman is, or a red herring. You will find that these types of people love to point out the flaws in your logic and belittle you for it. But then you would see that they then go right on and present their own flawed meanderings completely without regard to logic or sense.
And then, nurture your human ability of real tolerance and understanding. The one based on compassion and reason and the human heart. Explore and enjoy real diversity. Don’t settle for their fake tolerance and understanding because it is a harsh task master that demands you conform and will accept nothing less than your complete subservience.
Oh…and while you’re at it, look up the meaning and uses of hyperbole, and then explain the concept to the critical thinker who’s accusing you of dichotomous thinking.
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Post Commentjamie mullen
On August 9, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Yes computer is either on or off unless it’s in hibernation mode. My findings after my relatively short time on this earth is that things are rarely as black and white as we would wish them to be. Also your claim that by rejecting absolute models of morality hitlers actions somehow become acceptable is false.
Stephen J. Ardent
On August 9, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Certainly you aren’t going to attempt argue that Hitler and others thought of themselves as bad men? They thought of themselves as good men doing a great and necessary thing. Some also did it for power, others for greed.
So what?
By what standard do you say were not?
edsley
On October 30, 2009 at 1:19 pm
good dimension of thinking. keep exploring and share more of your lateral thoughts!
F
On August 18, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I do not see why their would be a relation between critical thinking and absolute relativism as you claim in a certain way