there's more than two ways to skin a cat

“Kunstformen der Natur” (The Art Forms of Nature), Plate 72 - Moss, Ernst Haeckel, 1904

We live in a time that offers the great falsity of dualism. It’s this or it’s that. It’s one or the other. You don’t like what’s on offer? Well then that equates to liking the opposite of that thing, whatever thing, all the things. We even do it to ourselves. We see s…