Rainbows don’t exist.

Gregory Boyce
Tech Stoa
Published in
Feb 23, 2023

They’re an illusion, created from light refracting through raindrops.

Each person sees a slightly different rainbow based on their own angle to the source of light.

There is no backside of the rainbow, because they do not exist.

Rainbow” by Donna Trethewey is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Similarly, any method you want to use for grouping humans is still a collection of unique individual experiences.

Each is a human.

Each is a member of the Great Ape family, with shared instinctual behaviors, shaped by a lifetime of learned narratives that encompass a tiny percentage of a vast unknowable reality.

Each living a personal narrative while participating in a shared physical reality.

Each narrative imperfect, incomplete, and often in conflict, both internally and externally.

Many people mistaking their narrative with Truth.

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