I am not the person I was a year ago. I'm not even the person I was a month ago. Every second that information enters our body through our senses, we become a new person with different ideas, different ways of percieving and interacting with our environments.
Human thought and behavior is the culmination of biological makeup and life experience. Each person is a completely uniqe combination of all these factors. We are told by the media that there are these "types of people" like "Frat Guys", "Drama Queens", "Gold Diggers", "Soccer Moms", "Religious Wackos", "Geeks", "Jocks", "Sinners" etc. etc. The whole post-modern view of different herds of groups all being led around by their different ideologies is wrong. Instead, when we get to know our fellow individual, we see that each person is a complex interaction of thoughts and ideas that have entered their perception over a lifetime of experience.
For instance one individual could be a multi-lingual short person of mixed religious parents who is a bisexual female. What group would she fall into? None really. Instead she would be a unique person with many different things that don't necessarily give a clue to her core beliefs. Similarly, you may have another person who is a heterosexual fraternity guy who is white protestant male. Does that tell you about that person? Not really other than a few superficial things that have nothing to do with the person's way of thinking. In fact the two people described here could behave in very similar ways by random chance.
Until recently, people have been thinking in stereotypes. The media continues to be way behind and still thinks that way, ignoring the fact that we are all unique individuals. Demographics and statistics are basically bullshit used to try and market to people. Have you ever seen a marketing campaign that sold anything close to 100%? Or even 50%? Heck, in a two party system, each party barely breaks even with only 50% of the population voting.
The reason is because each individual comes at life with a unique perspective. Religion, Politics and even Post-Modernism fail to grasp the full scope of human reality.
What should we take away from this reality of life? Well, we are all unique and yet we are all the same in so many ways. We are beings with the spirit of life in us who are trying to live in a way with as little suffering as possible to ourselves. Since we share that in common, we should at least agree to not cause eachother suffering. If someone causes suffering, then they should be made aware of that so they can stop causing the pain.
As the internet has brought the world closer, we can share stories with eachother and realize what we need to do to share the world with eachother and help eachother build healthy relationships. Relationships without hatred and violence. Relationships without bitterness and jealousy. Relationships where we have respect and compassion for eachother as fellow humans on this planet.
This way each person can feel free to be their own unique person without oppression while at the same time join with their fellow beings in the spirit of life, freedom, love and compassion. This is the New World View.
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