Gary Kroeger has written a Substack post entitled “The Spectrum Policy.”
His primary thesis:
“‘Spectrum Thinking’…is the opposite of ‘Binary Thinking’ which forces thought into a binary option only; ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ ‘Unknown equals threat.’”
Kroeger does not argue that we abandon binary thinking altogether. Instead he asserts that we have prioritized binary thinking and that we need to strive “an equal counterbalance” between binary and spectrum thinking.
“Binary thinking is not a lack of gray matter or even education, but is a way that human beings adapt to ever-changing, evolving, myriad complexities of existence. It is a way to protect ourselves. There are, however, disastrous downsides when there is not an equal and opposite counterbalance…”
Read Kroeger’s entire piece on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/gary261401/p/the-spectrum-policy
Incidentally, I resisted the temptation to begin this with the statement “Yeah, THAT Gary Kroeger” because (1) it’s irrelevant to his argument, and (2) many readers are too young to know who THAT Gary Kroeger is anyway.
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