Human individuals fear insignificance. We work to counter or fill this emptiness with Self-Righteous Pretense or with Reasoned Action or with a mixture from somewhere along that spectrum.

Hope: an unburst bubble.

Active Hope: hope filled with reasoned action.

Reasoned Action: considered conduct from intelligent, dispassionate thought.

Self-Righteous Pretense: sudsy weightless blather.

Self-Righteous Pretense works to hide fear and float hope and the outcome is insubstantial at best.

Reasoned Action works to manage fear and structure hope and the outcome is a learning experience at worst.

Every decision that comes my way is closely shadowed by my fear of insignificance.

To surround one’s self with competence inspires Reasoned Action.

To surround one’s self with competence may also exacerbate one’s fear of insignificance.

Who you surround yourself with and how you treat them is an indication of which end of the spectrum, (Self-Righteous Pretense or Reasoned Action), you gravitate toward.

Too often we choose comfort over improvement, security instead of progress, people like us rather than those we might learn from.

We talk about culture and diversity but we make decisions and we act according to fit.

Fit: the perceived potential for adapting. Suitability, agreeability, accordant cooperation.

Diversity: a perceived or actual reality of being dissimilar or distinct in character and disposition. Difference.

Fit and Diversity are mutually exclusive.

Yet as we make our decisions and act according to fit, we still insist upon talking about culture and diversity.

Groups of like-minded individuals are more inclined toward Self-Righteous Pretense than Reasoned Action.

Talk is cheap.

Fit is more conducive to longer-term relationships.

Diversity is more conducive to creativity and problem-solving.

For it to be Diversity, everyone in the circumstance must feel it.