We believe that, as Asimov describes, “everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.”48 This oversimplification helps us make sense of the world as children. But as we mature, we fail to outgrow this misleading theory. We go around trying to fit square pegs into round holes and pigeonholing things—and people—into neat categories to create the satisfying, but misleading, illusion of having restored order to a disorderly world.
