It really is a rather simple concept. Yet people still, even after, at the very least, eight thousand years of human cognition, some cannot grasp this kind of simple truth. It is an unfortunate part of human nature to want to divide ourselves into small groups of people who are like us. Whether that be skin color, religion, morals, gender even. It’s a survival instinct that is remnant of a time when our ancestors had to group together to survive because we didn’t have any sharp claws to fight or shells to hide in. But now that times are different and we no longer have to be so concerned about staying alive so much as living our lives, it has become a problem.

Whether it is a human construct like religion or money we divide ourselves into rich and poor, Muslim Jew or Christian. The next thing to come is the thoughts of us versus them. I’m taking a grim view on humanity this week and talking all about how we need to transcend problems such as these because no matter what religion you follow or what god or gods you choose to pray to, you are a human and there is nothing anyone can change about that. The guy who follows that other religion isn’t any less human than you so really he is more similar to you than different.

Or gender or race. Just because she is a woman or he is a man, doesn’t change the fact that they are human. They still have basic unalienable rights that should never in any way be breached. The black man is no less than the white. They are both staunchly and irreversibly human. Race is such a foreign construct to any of our relatives in the animal kingdom. Why? Because we as humans made up another way to divide ourselves judging based on the amount of melanin in our skins.

For better or worse we are all of one kind. One great family of being. It is only the nature that prompts us to hate those who are different that we must fight. Because surely we are stronger together. Surely Jews holding the hands of a Buddhist monk can see in each other’s eyes they unity that they possess. If we cannot overcome that which threatens our coexistence as the keepers of the earth and we are doomed to repeat history until we cease to exist. Pointedly I will end with a quote by my third favorite president Abraham Lincoln when he talked about a conflict that almost spelled the destruction of our nation. “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”