There are people who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don’t. Who is right? Let’s peek over the fence and see.

Let’s say, for example, I believe there are two kinds of people and you don’t. So what! Or the opposite, you believe there are two kinds of people and I don’t. Ditto!

I believe there have always been two kinds of people––where never the twain shall meet.

And it never can meet because each person’s certainty about what-is (and how-things-should-be-done) is, at bottom, a belief.  And a belief, any belief, e.g., religious, political, moral, what–is, how-things-should-be-done, can’t be changed by rational argument. There is no argument that will convince a person who already believes there is no argument that can challenge what they believe to change his or her mind.

When I try to convince someone of my superior reasoning, or save them from an obvious (to me) error, I am tilting at windmills, wasting my time, and being rude. I have never gotten along with know-it-alls and I cringe when I find myself explaining to someone else why my way of thinking is best.

So in the end, for me, there really are only two kinds of people: me and you.

––and I just love you for your nutty ideas.