The Great Jigsaw Puzzle - Society

The road to understanding is like the layers of an onion. Each layer we add is based on the content of the previous layer.

We all start out as infants, but we are not the same. At birth, we are uniquely configured individuals, not different.

Therefore - we are not comparable. We are born with the ability to feel, we are not born with judgment. From birth, we learn through our common senses, but judgment is not something that is self-taught. We are raised to judge based on differences that don't exist.

75% of the people born to this planet have a natural gift of perception focused on the "depth" of reality - but not the breadth. Their perspective is like a snapshot with a narrow window, and layers of detail.

The other 25% of the people have the gift of perception focused on the breadth, but not the depth. They see the high-level arc of reality. They can connect the past to the present and project the future.

There are cultural bridges that connect the two sides - religion and science.

The bridge of religion once explained the mysteries of life in terms of magic and then by miracles. It has evolved with the bridge of science, which seeks to transform mysteries of the unknown into understanding the known.

Because we are so unique as individuals, not two people share the same exact perspective on religion or science. On one bridge we are asked to trust the interpretation of an individual preacher; on the other bridge, we are asked to trust the findings of individual scientists. Even if we think we agree, we discover we don’t when we discuss it in depth. Thus, the world is highly fragmented.

Nature designed us to complement, not replicate each other. We evolved to collaborate, not compete. Those who feel they are better than others have lost their way. Divided we are myopic, blinded by our unique perspective of reality. Together we connect our perspectives and see the bigger, richer picture. That is why a civilization divided onto itself will always fall. We cannot respect the uniqueness of individuals because we don’t see it when we only see them as different.