Lessons learned n unlearned over time

Some people perceive the world as being black and white and nothing inbetween the  two colors.
Either its black or its white.

Reality has many shades.
For those willing to acknowledge, the shades of grey between black and white is infinite.
Its not a very complicated concept and its not the case that people don’t understand the meaning of it. Its just that they deliberately choose not to acknowledge the fact. Because acknowledging it bring complication in their simplified world. Black and white is lot simpler to deal with than the possibility of infinite shades of grey.

Its  a deliberate attempt to dumb down the reality so that its easier to grasp and less painful to digest .
Of course the shades of grey is not exactly infinite technically,  as there can only be so many shades of grey, but for simplicity we can say the shades of grey are infinite.
So, why do some people refuse to acknowledge the existence of grey color, let alone the possibilities of almost infinite shades?
Why does the color grey threaten people so much that they blindly refuse its existence?
Its the same as a blind screaming that the sun doesn’t exist. But not being able to see the sun is hardly the proof of its non-existence.
Perhaps its the metaphicycal bullshit they embrace that’s the root of all this. “I see therefore it exists”.
“Human knowledge begins with awareness of one’s own ideas and the world we see around is a result of one’s awareness.”
Once you believe or make yourself believe consciousness has  primacy over existence  , then the world around you can be simplified almost infinitely. You can refuse to acknowledge the existence of things around you one by one until your world is only filled with a handful of things that you allow into your consciousness or you allow them to exist with your consciousness, and the simplicity of the resulting world is  “less mind numbing”  to deal with.

So if you only allow black and white to exist in your consciousness, then the world is just black and white because since consciousness precedes existence for you, consciousness can be trimmed down to suit your needs. When you close your eyes all you see is black. So you can further trim your consciousness by closing your eyes and only allowing black to exist. I think a black world is a far more simpler than a black and white world.
Once you decide to simplify the world around you there’s no limit on what you can achieve.
Perhaps black is the only unescapable color, beside that you can do away with the rest.