Binaries are not so much the problem, as that we look at them through the lens of this monist idealism. That's when the natural polarities become polarized. It is cycles of expansion and consolidation, youth and age, liberal and conservative, but when we assume it all must boil down to one supreme state, both sides see themselves on the road to nirvana and those going the other way as misbegotten fools. More the yin and yang, than God Almighty.

The logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More consciousness seeking knowledge, than any form or brand of it.

Then everything which has tried to replace monotheism also makes the claim their ideals are absolute. From the Terrors of the French Revolution, to the current cancel culture.

Good and bad are not some cosmic duel between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The1/0 of life. Even bacteria get it.

So when the good becomes aspirational, rather than elemental, conflicts quickly become a race to the bottom, of us versus them, good versus bad. Rather than each side being able to expect the other hold the higher evolved standards and conditions of respect, responsibility, trust, honor, love, etc.

We have had this 'go forth and multiply' paradigm for a few tens of thousands of years and are now really reaching the edge of the petri dish. It's time for a more cyclical, reciprocal, feedback generated vision.

Life really is more a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, than winner take all. Those who feel they must cheat, in order to keep winning, don't understand the game. All they end up with are rotten children and no friends. It's the ones that played well that are remembered respectfully, even if they had to drink the hemlock, nailed to the cross, burned at the stake.

The bull is power. The matador is art.