Sameness

I find it somewhat disconcerting, un-nerving and creepy.  I am sure there are many other words that describe my feelings.  A look at the synonyms on this word program reveals eight words for disconcerting.
It seems that so much of what I am thinking about comes up in the general media.  There are things I have never posted, that have become catch cries of organizations.  I actually wince sometimes when I find organizations using phases I have been thinking.  I’m sorta flattered in a not so sure kinda way.  Trouble is, it is like I am wise after the event when it is not posted.
Of course by the same token I am encouraged.  If what I thought was in isolation I would be very concerned.  It would be like I was on another planet.  I certainly have nothing against other planets. I would love to explore them, and I am sure I would see beauty in wild desolation.  However for me, doing it alone is no fun.  I really like to share stuff.  Something seen just through my eyes is like it never happened at all, unless someone chooses to believe me.  Supplying proof helps.  But then it needs to be verified.
Even a small group believing the same thing is fraught.  I need only look at some of the “fringe” organizations to know that.  When someone else sees things the way I do, I feel validated.  My existence has some meaning to someone.
What I can’t take to, and hopefully never will be able to, is to have my belief system cost others.  I don’t want to be like ISS and the like, and feel the need to wipe out anyone who does not see the world the way I do.  I have a right to my beliefs and others have a right to theirs.  For me, if something is useful I use it.  If it is not, I discard it.
I do think though, that variation on a theme is a good thing.  I want what I believe to be true for as many people as possible, but I do not want to be like a mono culture. The coffee from McDonalds used to be that way.  It was consistently terrible.  It tasted like cardboard.  Well, it tasted like what I imagine cardboard would taste like, as I have never imbibed it.  Their coffee is better to me these days.
Our society is full of “sameness.”  Sometimes that is a really good thing, but to me, it can be, and has been, taken too far. Perhaps “political correctness” is an example.  The pendulum really seems to me to be swinging back the other way right now.  I want to be unique, but not to the point where I cannot relate, and no one can relate to me. Sameness in things is one thing, but in people it is often a bridge too far for me.
I love being surprised at what people sometimes come out with.  It is one of the reasons I find this such an interesting place.