The Great Fallacy:
VI. Whenever, wherever we woke up, we woke up to separation, division, distinction. Me, and you. I, and it. Self, and everything else. We got out of bed, stretched, yawned, and said, "Only divide." We. Me and my body. We took a look around, noticed problems (hunger, pain), difficulties (desire), and hazards (saber-tooth tigers, SUV's, etc.). Without noticing, we came to a big, long-lasting conclusion: All Is Two. Thus: Everywhere I experience two-ness, myself versus my body, my embodied self vs. you, my embodied self vs. everything else. And from all reports, all you you's experience the same thing. Twoness as far, well, as far as two eyes can see. "I am two, therefore all is two." My little two implies a big two. Micro-two implies macro-two. If two is here, then two is everywhere, all places, all times. A sound conclusion based on our emergent experience, waking up in a not entirely hospitable world where encounter after encounter (falling rock! cut foot! dead child!) only reinforced our sense of twoness, which became the largely unexamined necessary bedrock of history. Necessary, but not sufficient (empty hearts! ephemeral achievements!). Truly, the Great Fallacy. We can say it three ways. One is at the top of this page. Or:
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