They are simple in scan, complex underneath, don't reflect reality well, and shouldn't have the last say.
information literacy
These are the patterns I've been leveraging for years to suss out where people just wanted others to shut up. Because that is the real goal behind why they are seeking a binary answer: "We're doing this, shut up." How it happens is diverse,
social fractals
Acknowledging that cognition can be built to be steeped deeply in binaries helps me understand why our attempts to bridge with empathy fails. They literally cannot see other options. If we want something different, we have to shut down their access to think they can make decisions for us. This
abstractions
Current information technology hardware functions on a binary substrate of ones and zeros translated to electric gates (highly simplified!!), with lots of programming layers between that substrate and the code. That code controlling the hardware is something most of us don't understand. Over that, we're layering