I was surprised when someone compared dichotomous thinking to the Hydra, which to me was a small multi-cellular organism with tentacles and a primitive nervous system. I did not know the name Hydra comes from Greek mythology and refers to a multi-headed beast. If you cut off one of the heads but do not cauterize the neck, the head grows back. The great thing about the analogy is that there is a difference between simply pointing out how dichotomous thinking confounds one specific problem, say
blocking consensus on a common issue, and pointing out the hand (or head) it
plays in seemingly unrelated problems.  I have no illusions as to how difficult it is to promote an idea like this, what makes me think it an achievable goal is the wide number of different ways the same problem rears its ugly heads.