One of the things I find very interesting about society is our need to create dichotomies where there really aren't any and I'm not sure where any of this came about but there's kind of been a lot of. Polarity that has emerged whether it's media or anywhere else in in my lifetime at least and so I find it really interesting to explore this idea that there are no kind of dichotomies where there are no polar polar opposites that an effect everything is more or less a spectrum this is particularly interesting when we talk about society because the easiest thing is to just classify things as good or bad right or wrong in or out, you know up or down and, Not to recognize the inherent complexity of social life and when we do this it's it's easy to get trapped into this idea that there is no gray everything is black or white and we stop looking for the right questions to ask because we're only given a very limited set of answers or of of ideas or framework within to within which we can work. So I think it's going to be more more important as a society continues to develop for us to stop thinking in black and white terms that's to stop thinking in positive or negative terms and even in good or bad terms and start thinking about all aspects of life as just a spectrum of gray we're taught at a very young age even that there is a right or wrong answer to just about any question we could ask and this is kind of a failing of the educational system. S because that's not reality it's simplifies things certainly and for a child more or less makes sense for them to see where the world and more simplistic form but it really sets people up for a huge challenge when they become adults because the right and the wrong of daily life is much more complicated as much more difficult to discern. And that's not to say that there aren't clearly right and clearly wrong decisions to make or ways of behaving but it is to point out that the clarity within which things could be right or wrong is much much much rarer than we would expect growing up in a country where you learn you know that there's one answer to a question whenever you're coming up into school, it also sets people up for a real challenge when they hit higher education. Because if you working within a higher education institution that that really challenges students to think critically then what you're faced with as a student is the proposition that there is no right or wrong answer that there's only a spectrum of gray and there are more right answers and there are more wrong answers but the middle bit is very vague and indistinct and difficult to discern in this of course challenges a whole bunch of other structures within the educational system not least being grading and evaluate. Students learning outcomes but the basic premise here is that we have to stop thinking of things in terms of black and white that there's a whole complex array of of changes that can occur that we have to recognize aren't simply good or bad black or white but that there is a range of options opportunities that we have in front of us in evaluating the good or the, Bad of it all can only ever be done in retrospect it's very difficult to make a decision in your life and to know ahead of time that that's going to be a good or a bad decision it's really about how you frame that decision in your and and afterwards and try to understand what was the outcomes of that decision before you can really make that normative good or bad evaluation of it, so I think in terms of the world that we're facing now the complex challenges that we're facing. I think it's good if we understand and recognize that we're not going to always make the most optimized decisions and that the decisions we do make are going to be influenced by how we frame those decisions and how we feel about those decisions and not necessarily by some kind of objective measure of right or wrong and it's important to remember that all dichotomies are false
