There is an idea I’ve read that fascinates me, which suggests people are an organism and not the separate creatures we believe ourselves to be. Examples cited frame the mass acceptance of humanity at different times in history about certain ideas like the acceptance of going into war, or acceptance of revolution, or accepting changing fashions, or how jazz or rock or country or rap become styles absorbing swaths of people. An organism feeding itself through people signalling each other, they are on the same team, encapsulated maybe best in the Monty Python film when Graham Chapman’s Jesus says “You’re all individuals” and in unison they all repeat it. Watching the latest Dave Chappelle special. It is very funny and also amazing that the word latches on to one detail as though that is the essential issue to discuss and/or judge. It might not necessarily be possible for people to see themselves different than the separate superstar looking back from the mirror. But the effort to remember the same force running through your (apparent) individuality, is replicated a few trillion times, throughout this planet, among all those brothers and sisters. Even before you consider where it came from, bias often is busy sharing it’s view and never for a moment considering it could just be a magnetic distortion rather than original thought. Elvis might have shown more accuracy changing the lyric to “we can go on with suspicious minds, we do build dreams on suspicious minds”.