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Old May 28, 2013, 03:37 PM
anonymous8113
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There is no clever fallacy here, as in the meaning of "Straw Man". I don't think I got you
wrong; I think you didn't think, perhaps, deeply enough about what you were saying to
start with.

What's the purpose in "dualism" of "black-white", "male-female", etc., except to indicate as you
did that it means "2 little boxes" in which one is superior and the other must be inferior. Don't you realize that you are projecting your own concepts as a reality? Whatever it suggests, your meaning attached to it is from you, not from the hearts of people who don't think in such a way. I might as well suggest such a thought as in "righthanded or lefthanded" as a dualism. Ironically, such a ludicrous prejudice did exist in earlier civilizations in which one or the other hand was supposed to indicate a healthy and the other a sick individual. One would hope that we have evolved a good bit since that time.

I've defended my position adequately, and I am dropping it, also, as a defense for bipolar
intelligence and creativity and the contributions to art and civilization, in at least a couple of passing references to the Renaissance in Italy and to the Romantic period in England and a
couple of references to the United States, i.e., Ernest Hemingway--oh, and F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Eugene O'Neill, among many, many others in the 20th century, too innumerable to name here.

Goodbye.

Last edited by anonymous8113; May 28, 2013 at 04:38 PM.