Polarity

I know lots of people always say that were all weird, different, strange, unique, special.  But more often then not if you take two people you will find that they are more similar than different.  More same then special.  I guess I wonder where we get all those notions of uniqueness, why we let those notions drive us to seek accolades for specialness, and why that specialness makes us believe that it is OK to judge other people.

It's interesting how people treat each other when they see another person as a threat to there uniqueness.  It frightens them. They lash out. To them you could never do a thing as well as they can. And if your actions were identical to their's, they would still believe their fantasy. The threat of sameness running on the same level as the threat of survival.  What's interesting about this is you can relate a lot of resistance to social change to this problem.  Groups of people worried about there identity being stripped from them or certain privileges.  All, to some extent,  the threat of sameness.

Were so worried about it, that even our neighbor can become our enemy. We can cast a polarizing effect on any person or group.  Democrats and Republicans.  Yankees and Mets.  SoCal and NorCal.  Muslim and Christian.  American and the rest of the World.  It's funny I can feel myself wanting to justify how different each of those things are. But really that's just the polarizing effect of wanting uniqueness.  Sure I could list off 20 ways that each of those people are different from each other.  But I bet I could list off 100 ways they are similar.  It's sad that we fight with each other trying to be unique, when really it just doesn't matter.