The news makes it so easy to hate our fellow humans. To see them as “other”, “not like us”, “idiots”, or less than.

But the vast majority of people are good in their own way.

Often it’s not that we even disagree, but that we just choose to focus on different parts of the same river.

The person in the rapids wants the river to slow down.

And the person at the delta sees all the accumulated trash.

Fundamentally people aren’t that different. They’re just responding to a different angle of reality.