logic is blond ... aaa ... sorry i meant blind

i would like to say that our friend georgie created a monster; except that when mr. boole came around, the monser was already there.

by the way, the name of the monster ... (shhhh! don't read it out loud because you might scare people) is 'boolean logic'.

i know ... i know ... it doesn't sound scary at all.

but what i'm talking about is the perfect instrument for a binary world. for the world of 'either/or'.

it's ignoring the fact that the world appears in shades of gray, not black and white (not to speak of all the wonderful colors).

and there have been plenty of examples of that throughtout medieval history or modern times.

in my old company i had this friend who had a 5 (i think) years old son. what was driving him crazy was that while watching movies his son kept pesting him for every new character in the film: "is he good or bad?"/"is she good or bad".

so maybe that's what binary logic is good for:

five-year-olds
... and extremists
... and the spanish inquisition
... and those ugly big boxes that make sound and draw beautifull blue screens, usually called computers.

actually, outside of computers it continues to be a monster (and inside computers, there's not much of it: there's a hot plaque and lots of cables and the usual ferret or gerbil that runs in a cylinder to keep it going ... i think).

so, is boolean logic good or bad? think about it.