Friday, January 4, 2019

Möbius Strip - The Tale of One People

The Möbius Strip is an interesting phenomenon in math. Even though it is a 3D object it only had one side. See image below.


It is formed by taking a flat rectangular object and joining it at the ends after rotating one end through 180 degrees (flip it over). I believe this is an excellent example of what the human race looks like.

It appears there are two sides (e.g. Left/Right, East/West, Black/White, Liberal/Conservative, etc.) but if you follow the strip you eventually wind up on the same side. You see, we are all in this thing together. We can either remain on "our side" or we can engage others in useful dialog and try to make sense out of our world.

When you split hairs long enough you begin to lose sight of the boundaries that divide us. We know that we disagree, we are just not certain where the disagreement starts and stops. I believe if we will just talk, and listen, we will find we have more in common that we do differences. After all, we are all human!

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