Me and we

When we spend an enormous amount of time sorting each other out, we can’t help but highlight the differences. This is undoubtedly a product of toxic individualism when taken to an extreme—me, my rights, my ideas, and my happiness —and so on.

However, we can also switch modes quite easily to talk about the we that we have so much more in common than we realize.

The differences make us unique individuals, but within a culture and society, we can do a far better job of defining ourselves by what we stand for rather than what we don’t.