The Cartesian Trap

These are terrifying products of dualistic thinking. We (read - ‘The West’) like to divide things up into chunks or split things in two. A hang-over from the Enlightenment. Apparently, culture is human-made stuff, whereas Nature is that green stuff...over there...(where?). We use dualisms all the time, mostly without thinking about it, like day and night, men and women, culture and nature, mind and body, black and white, civilised and uncivilised, organic and inorganic.