DO AS I DO

Some of us have said, and others of us have heard, and some of us have been told, and most of us now believe, that we are all individuals, perpendicular, that we are all different from one another, that we are not the same, that each and every one of us, is unique.

We probably heard this from our parents, or maybe we learned if from our teachers. We have definitely heard it from the media, the newspapers, the radio and television commercials, and the magazine advertisements. Marketers capitalize on their ability to convince us that we are different, or better, that we all need to be different, or best of all, that we all need to believe that we are different.

I don’t believe that crap for one second.

I am a huge skeptic of the Media Message. I think we all have more similarities between us than we have differences. I believe we do have more in common than we don’t. I know deep in my heart that we are definitely, positively, and impossibly connected to each other, and we are connected to each other in many visible ways, and so many, many more that are invisible, and impossible for most people to understand.

Our various minor and insignificant inconsistencies and differences don’t, and never will, outweigh our similarities… our parallels.