What are we good at?

I believe in humanity.  I believe that we humans are one race.  One species.  We are similar.  Science agrees with me, but many participants (including scientists) do not.

That is beacause what we are best at in the whole world is dichotomisation.  It is something that human beings do exceptionally well.  Binification (binarization?).  Turning every single event and experience into Us and Them.  Wrong or Right.  Good or Bad.  There must be a scale for judging everything and we feel most comfortable when things are at one extremity or the other. 

Fuzzy complexities that say "It was okay apart from that bit, but when you think about it it makes sense from another perspective..."  is not how we want things. 

This is a bit of a concern, as the universe does not exist in this fashion.  The universe is not simplistic; it is complex.  Where we see binary dichotomies, there in fact exist complex, multi-dimensional spectrums

This is problematic enough, but not only does the universe exist in the form of complex. multi-dimensional spectrums of each type of thing... but so do we.  Even the most black and white, conformist, reactionary, extremists amongst us are in fact complex and multi-dimensional.

The reason extremists are often very angry people is that trying to force a multi-dimensional complex universe to conform with your extremist binary perspective is very difficult and involves the most intense level of justification.  We must in fact re-order the universe to conform with our ego.  The simplest way to do this is to be extremely naiive.  Always believe the first thing you were told and reject every piece of conflicting information as propaganda from the devil (or equivalent).  Or else you can use the wonderful faculty of justification.

And that brings us to the thing human beings are second-best at.  From one side it is called justification or  rational(ization).  From the other side it is called denial.  We are all very very good at it.  Thank your ancestors.  Depending on how valuable our ego is to us relative to the facts, we can convince ourselves of anything we want.  I know people who have never done anything wrong (or interpretable as wrong) in their lives.  And I bet a dollar that you do too. 

Whether we grip tightly or are more relaxed we all want to be right and we are all afraid of being wrong.