@Thomas,
I've got no problem at all with it, Thomas: it's how the world seems to work.
An observation that I've made over my years of participation in these philosophy forums is so obvious that I'm afraid it may be banal for most of our A2K philosophers; I just hope they will add to and refine said observations.
It seems to me that we tend to bifurcate the World into opposing almost metaphysical categories: the advocates or practicioners of
subjectivism or idealism VERSUS
objectivism or realism (in the 60s and 70s social scientists where I studied expressed this as materialism vs.
mentalism ); absolutism, which is compatible with various forms of "essentialism", vs. relativism, sometimes expressed as contextualism. Objectivists seem to inhabit a Newtonian world with substantial "things" and structures moving about in an imagined quasi-void while ontological relativists seem to inhabit a world of ever-changing PROCESSES in which "becoming" (rather than being) occurs in a condition of ontological
impermanence. There is also a strong tendency to divide the human World by means of an essentialism emphasizing NATURE vs. the "artificialism" or constructivism of CULTURE (wiith its "artifacts"). Everyone acknowledges the reality of both, but we tend to weight them differenly.
I am exaggerating of course: no-one is wholly on one side or the other. We are in a sense amphibians occupying two kinds of reality simultaneously, but most of us (with the obvious exceptions of the more mystically inclined among us--me included), make a dualistic distinction between our world INSIDE (subjectivism) and our world OUTSIDE (objectivism) , no doubt a tendency strengthened in the West by Descartes.
What I find most interesting in this pattern is that it seems to reflect a fundamental dualism running deep within us. We spontaneously emphasize EITHER subjectivism/ relativism/ idealism, etc. OR we emphasize objectivism/ absolutism/ realism, etc..
We seem to do this spontaneously in a manner similar to the way we deal with the ambiguous illusions presented us by the Necker Cube and the Rubin Vase.