Thought for today:
If we assume that everything in the living world - anatomical structures, emotions, beliefs, taboos, religion, the little rubber rings on headphone jacks, soapbox philosophers and street preachers - exists for a reason, then we should also assume that opposites - male and female, change and statsis, the political left and right, science and myth/religion, the forest and the trees (= the specific and the abstract), cooperation and competition - also exist for a reason.
And if so, it is very likely that we need both.
I find that idea somehow comforting.
(Which is probably the reason I had that idea in the first place.)
If we assume that everything in the living world - anatomical structures, emotions, beliefs, taboos, religion, the little rubber rings on headphone jacks, soapbox philosophers and street preachers - exists for a reason, then we should also assume that opposites - male and female, change and statsis, the political left and right, science and myth/religion, the forest and the trees (= the specific and the abstract), cooperation and competition - also exist for a reason.
And if so, it is very likely that we need both.
I find that idea somehow comforting.
(Which is probably the reason I had that idea in the first place.)
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