Thumbs and Opposing Views

 The opposable thumb is an emblamatic feature of the primates. Evolution took a while to figure out that having an extra finger in the wrong direction is super helpful. Powers of 2 are generally super helpful computationally. Why then do we have "10" fingers? We probably had a power of 2 (we had 4 fingers on each hand with no thumb), and then one popped out accidentally and it was super cool.

Now you could hook onto things from both sides. Grabbing some objects is so much easier with a friggin thumb. You get pushback. You get strength in multiple directions. I can grab things one way with only fingers and could also grab something with just my thumb but in the opposite direction.

Wow, having a oddly not-power-of-two finger number that actually ends up being the opposing minority is super helpful. 

Kind of like having divergent poltical beliefs is very healthy. It let's society grab onto some things in a way that many others could not. It is the same thing, with strength and use, but in an opposite direction.

Wow, so being divergent is actually pretty awesome. You started with something good, fingers, and you ended up with a thumb, and now you can grasp so much more from the world.

If politics were framed in this mindset, maybe people would calm down for a damn second.

At any level of our society we should recognize our differences amongst our neighbors and appreciate them because help us grasp what we might miss.