Binary distinctions lie at the heart of reality. “Truth value” comes in only two forms: true and false. There is nothing in between. Even as you read this, that is an absolute truth. At every instant, every circuit on your computer’s CPU is either open or closed. There is nothing in between. A family, being a society with a form of governance, is a polity and is, in fact, the elemental polity of civilization. A family is itself binary: Either intact or broken. Even humankind is binary. As Anselm Moynihan notes in The Experience of God’s Presence, “the root of the most radical division of mankind, that between the wise who keep God before their eyes and the fools who ignore him.”
(Molly Slag, the American Thinker)
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