Magnetic Thinking
We seek stability. All our lives we seek the security, comfort, and peace of stability. We don’t like uncertainty. We want things to be settled, to be definite, to stay in place. The DIALECTIC, however, is dynamic and is the only appropriate response to a dynamic world of uncertainty. There is a special class of relationships in particular where we tend to claim certainty: things that we see as opposites, things where we either stand on one side or on the other, where there is a distinct right and wrong, true and false, black and white with no space between, no gray areas. We must choose one pole or the other. I call this a bipolar tension, a special form of the DIALECTIC: the DIALECT of bipolarity.
About Me
- WRoark
- Professor of Christian Studies and Philosophy for more than thirty years. Author of Think like an Octopus: The Key to Becoming a Good Thinker. Now the blogosphere is my classroom. I am a contrarian, challenger of the status quo, a voice from a differing perspective. When I retired, I took off my watch, my shoes, let others answer the phone, and refuse to hurry, unless life is at stake.
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