Who or ‘what’ others are is incomplete… and completed only by our participation with them. Or not.

So that if I think I know the skill or value of some other person, or people in general… I am throwing away most of the library of our abilities in unison.

If I start out thinking in ways that directly limit this… i.e. others are stupid, I am better, and so on…

… I have fallen for the myth of the Individual.

The idea that we’re supposed to be fantastic, alone.

Well, try it. I mean, some of us can do amazing things, all by ourselves. Creative things, for example.

But if you were actually alone… what would even »matter?

There’s a lethally common pretense here: the pretense of ‘the great one’. Perhaps you may see some evidence of this in the Oval Office.

We become new ways of being possible humans, better, together, whenever that’s our shared purpose.

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Imagine you have a choice in a conflict between two teams:

The guy who is ‘the best’ at something.

And that plus the guy who »sees best, best.

Who would pick the first team?

Nearly all of us, in our common thought, behavior, and abject vulnerability to the myth of ‘the one who is best’ (alone).

There is no best one, alone. Except in weird representations where some statistic determines ‘success’.

What we have together, is infinitely more than we »can ever have alone.

If the common people enacted this perspective… there are few problems we would »fail to solve.