The Problem with Black and White Thinking

Generally speaking, you are either a Republican or Democrat, a Calvinist or Armenian, you either believe we are shaped by nature or nurture, you either like Neil Diamond or you don't, and even as you're read this, you either agree with the statements I just made or you disagree. We think Fox News is brainwashing or truth-telling, we are Democratic or Marxists, evolutionists or creationists? There is either right or wrong, good or bad, beautiful or profane, right?

Such thinking wouldn't make...