When I was a kid my mother’s favorite phrase was, ‘Not everything is black and white’ It never quite rang true to me. When I started learning–really learning–about science and computers it became clear that everything does pare down to a black and white argument–a zero or a one, yes or a no. What creates nuance and complexity is the way these binary choices stack upon each other to form something unique and seemingly original.
Yes or no is the simplest response to any given command line. Yes, or execute indicates a willingness to form a connection, to bind oneself to the matter in a fashion that makes exfiltration difficult. No is a denial of service, a rejection of ideology that helps maintain the status quo. Individually, A yes is a yes and a no is a no, but stacked upon each other in a chain of commands that lead to a single response.
Yes and no linked in sequence formed a maybe. A repeated sequence of yes’s and no’s form a script and a script is echoed into behaviors and trends and stereotypes, finally entirely belief systems structured, ordered, and traced back to a zero or a one.