Habitual thinking




False dilemmas or false dichotomy are quite common.
I guess it's a way of thinking that is convenient.

One example is black and white thinking.

Lets say, Europeans behave like this but people from Asia behave like this.

Animals is like that and huma beings like this.

Our concepts betray us.

Therfore its good for som time to stop thinking or at least have som distance to our thoughts and to ourselves.

Not seldom we look at ourselves in this way. We condemn our selves to be loosers, poor or not good enough. Then we are stuck in false dichotemys. Life is more complicated than our thinking can grasp. And those dychotemys can be dangerous; this kind of thinking has led to wars and hostility. We tell stories about ourselves and other people.  Therefore it can be good to have a look at our beliefs and at the stories we tell to ourselves and to others. To take a break from them; it may be stories that are inherited from our ancestors or from the culture. It can be stories that our "selfish genes" want to tell us.  

It also seems that we tend to just think of the near future. "What do I care about what will happen in 100 years from now, as long as I can drive my car each day?"

A time is short for us to, for instance, save our planet from to much climate change, its time to have a look at our habitual thinking.

Another dichotomy is the division between a "me" and nature. 
There is no division there - we are nature,  we are interrelated to everything around us. 







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