Worlds Apart, Socially?

The following comment was received at Cyber Spatial Headquarters of The Truthless Reconciler:

                        "have been reading your posts. You and I are worlds apart, socially."

After due consideration, I can not for the life of me figure out why anyone would write something like that. The person who wrote this lives about 40 miles from me, and has for decades. Same country, same state, same county, same ambiant culture all our lives. Yet, worlds apart, socially?

Why, because you're a republican and I'm a democrat? Because you're rich and I'm poor? Because you're conservative and I'm liberal? Worlds apart? Huh? How can any two people living on the same planet, much less the same town, be "worlds apart" in anything?

The other day a very earthlike planet was discovered orbiting a nearby star. Did anybody notice?

This planet could very well harbor life, even intelligent life. You wanna see worlds apart socially? When the human race finally does encounter life forms from other planets, all our cultural differences, which might seem so profound now, will drastically shrink.

A computer person and a stone age person are inherently quite similar. All people are, fundamentally. In our divisive culture, (America) we tend to forget our similarities. Chinese, German, American? All the same, basically.

Its all about attitude. We can either emphasize differences, and divide ourselves against other people, or emphasize all we have in common, and reconcile.

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