We are sons and daughters of structuralism, which has seen life as a series of two mutually exclusive, opposed or contradictory groups. This binary opposition acknowledges the human tendency to think in terms of oppositions. Religions foster this categorization and simplistic view of reality, associated with something positive or negative. Typically RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS will state: "If you are not for me, you are against me"; when in fact, you can be indifferent to both attitudes.
J. Derrida argued that these oppositions were arbitrary and inherently unstable. Deconstruction rejects most of the assumptions of structuralism and especially "binary opposition".
YOUR TASK will be to find an alternative way out of these over forty false dilemmas which binary contrasts create AND ARE PART OF OUR OWN deeply-rooted CULTURAL HERITAGE:
MOORS- CHRISTIANS
RIGHT- LEFT
RIGHT- WRONG
THOUGHT- ACTION
REASON- PASSION
SPEECH- WRITING
BELIEVER- ATHEIST
THEORY- PRACTICE
CLASSIC- ROMANTIC
MALE CHAUVINIST- FEMINIST
MALE- FEMALE
BODY- SOUL
PACIFIST- BELLICOSE
INSIDE- OUTSIDE
PRESENCE- ABSENCE
MARRIED- SINGLE
EASTERN- WESTERN
INDEPENDENT- CENTRALLY DOMINATED
IRRIGATED COASTAL LANDS- DRY HINTERLANDS
LIFE - DEATH
SKY- EARTH
ABOVE- BELOW
SOUTH - NORTH
FIRE- DAMP
DAY- NIGHT
SPRING- WINTER
SUN- MOON
BLACK- WHITE
LIGHT- DARKNESS
NEAR- FAR
HOME- FOREST
YOUTH- AGE
SACRED- PROFANE
PAGAN- CHRISTIAN
NATURAL FOOD- COOKED FOOD
PHYSICS- METAPHYSICS
MONARCHY- REPUBLIC
FREEDOM- SLAVERY
ATTACHMENT- REPULSION
LOVE- HATRED
MYTH - REALITY
FORM - CONTENT
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