Where do you end and I begin?

We are a product of our genes, our environment, and the interactions/relationships we have. One’s sense of me is an arbitrary concept – a physical body or a personality that can in concept be separated from the others. A flawed concept that I am a separable and individual entity. Do I not flow from you and you from me? It is never individual victory but rather our victory.

We are individual points scattered across a board connected by yarn. Modern American society focusses on the points, but perhaps the yarn between is more essential? The community more than the “individual”? We are inseparable from each other in our effects and to even conceptualize you and me as distinct is folly.

If we thought more about the yarn that connects us, what would we do differently? What would we do to optimize not the points but the connections? Would we make more time for each other? Would we be emotionally stronger? Would we learn faster? Could we possible perform better on the same metrics we use today to evaluate our society?