In a parking lot

Still contemplating the this/that complex that usually encompasses most people. That choice provides a false duality that bleeds over into the rest of life.  All choices become a/b choices when often a and b aren't good choices in the first place.  That simplicity removes the possibility that all choices can have more than one answer.  Yet it's that specific trait that is desired by business.  Perhaps it's an educational failing.  I remember having an argument with an English teacher in 7th or 8th grade about being dropped off at school.  High school moved band to first period, and the school was small enough to have 7th/8th graders in high school band.  My parents gave my brother the option of taking me to school in the morning or not. He was in high shool.  The teacher wouldn't even entertain the possibility that my brother had been given a choice.  She was a firm believer in a/b choices.   

Such separations become obvious in politics.  It gets to the point where neither side will talk to the other.  They both blame each other, but both sides are still having an a/b conversation.   

I'm not mad at current society.  Our failings are simply amplifications of being taught the wrong thing.  We failed the OODA loop, and we're solving problems that simply don't exist anymore.  

The biggest problem with the A/B option is best described by Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.  It says that any logical model of reality is incomplete (and very likely inconsistent) and must be continuously refined and adapted in the face of new observations.  A and B are never complete theorems, and neither side even decently describes humanity.  They never do.  But it ends up being a squirmy little box, so people shove and shove trying to get their idea into the box.  All the while, parts flow out in all directions.  

Observation is the key to understanding.  Those items that just don't seem to fit in the box don't fit in the box.  They need to be moved into a new home, where they fit within what they do.  And once you find the right home, that bit won't try to escape the box.  The only problem is your A/B solution suddenly becomes an A through Z solution, and it's hard to describe the entire thing.  

In order to describe life, the theory has to be necessarily complex to fit everything.  Simplicity just doesn't work when you combine free will.  That's the crux of it all.  That's the point that breaks apart every good thought and plan.

I'll stop now, before this falls off into more of a chasm than it already is.

Side note:  this one is called "in a parking lot" because it was partially written in a Wal-Mart parking lot while my wife ran into the store.