Humanity’s Values is a reader-supported publication. Please consider subscribing as a way of supporting the delivery of the content you’re appreciating. Also, feel free to share and expand the community of reflective critcism. Our shared humanity means we experience a great many things similarly, despite our avowed dedication to the belief in our uniqueness. Despite the modern obsession with individual identity, and the ego-driven desire to make “lived experience,” itself based on a delusion of one’s uniqueness and displacement from humanity, it is our similarities that drive us to bond, suffer, and gasp in relief at even the merest semblence of communal connection online. We strive for such connection to mitigate our disconnection from nature and the fruit of our labors as everything becomes digitized. We pursue these bonds, just as often, to avoid the crushing weight of how often our ignorance would shine were we to stop for a moment and critically reflect.