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Originally Posted by Angela  Michael, are you making the point that without some adherence to the social contract of agreeing to certain tenets of "polarity," the conversation could explode into a crazy-quilt paint-spattered Jackson-Pollack disconnected melee? |
No, I am not. Let's try again.
Do you remember the discussion with yossarian about feminism? It was in the thread about why should a man bother getting married. What distinguishes the concept of "polarity" from the concept of "feminism"? Why was he wrong about one, but no one can be wrong about the other?
Or, to put it another way, do the concepts behind our words actually exist? Is there any meaning behind the noise and the clamor? Are we lying when we use the same word to mean different things? Do we really have any idea what we're talking about?
You're right that "people discover what works for them by discussing these topics". However, that stance also says that these topics are actually meaningless, and simply act as a focus for reflection, rather than having any substance in and of themselves. A very subjective realist stance, to be sure, and thus quite valid, but that is nonetheless the consequence.
According to the statement you made, there is no such thing as polarity.