I. And Thee.

Thou. And I.

We. Me. You. I.

A big deal these days, isn’t it? The last centuries, the I has become paramount. Over the we. The I. It’s the spirit of the age. Selfies, celebrities, fame, fortune. Partnering. Mariage and divorce. We’re all caught up with I. Who am I? Who are you? What is your personal destiny? Your individual calling.

We may be barking up the wrong tree. What I mean is, individuality might be over-rated. Meaning, the actual difference between any two of us, in the grand scheme of it all, might be equivalent to nil.

Are we really that different from each other? Is Trump that different from Bernie Sanders? Or Kanye that different from a homeless man? Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so different from Tucker Carlson? Or even Leonardo da Vinci so different, in fundamentals, from the dumbest kid you can remember from your high school class?

I’m not so sure. In immediate detail, yes, a rose is different from a petunia in many striking ways. But as flowers, don’t they both reproduce the same? Have similar lifespans. Need the same nutrients to stay alive. Beneath the flashy surface, in the history of all living things, I might say the rose and the petunia are about as close to equal as you can get.

We’re a family, us Homo Sapiens. And compared to the future race we might create. One with memories 1,000 times greater than ours, and collective consciousness that gives any individual a IQ 1,000 times greater than the smartest of us that ever lived. Or lifespans of 1,000 or more years. Physical strength equalling the greatest machines. I mean, will that super race, that next species beyond ours, really care about the difference between Leonardo and the dumbest kid from your high school class? If they can figure out as much about nature and the universe in one school year, as it took all of humanity to figure out over 70,000 years, won’t all of us, from their eyes, be rather insignificant as individuals?

Maybe. Just a thought. Just wondering if all this me me me culture we’re all so obsessed with is just foolishness. Maybe humility, joining the team of the human race, realizing we all have the same underlying structures and desires, needs, wants, maybe humility will be discovered to be a universal principle, a sign of the highest intelligence of all.