So what's black and white and gray all over?
An agnostic Zebra?
A Unitarian Universalist Newsletter?
Fundamentalist gruel? (cinnamon-flavored, of course)
But seriously, folks, this is a big one. Having just sat through a number of book report presentations this week, I noticed that every single group made one of the following comments:
"The author made the issues seem way too black and white."
or
"The author did a good job of presenting multiple viewpoints, but never really resolved them."
Every single presentation.
So what's going on here? Why is this observation a staple of literary and conceptual criticism? Why do issues always become either polarized or completely wishy-washy*?
I want to tackle this issue head-on; just not today. I'm off to climb rocks and see my girl for the first time in 2 weeks.
*this framing of the issue is itself a polarization: down-the-rabbit-hole alert!
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I liked where the author was headed with this piece, but it seems like he simultaneously obfuscated and oversimplified the issue. I would have liked to have seen the author go more into the "meat" of the material and less into their own personal views on the subject matter.
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