Why is that we take sides? Why do people have to choose a party or name for themselves? Or feel compelled to place a label on others?
“I often think it’s comical
How nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!”
- Gilbert and Sullivan, “Iolanthe”
As usual, the team of Gilbert and Sullivan make fun of the all-too-human proclivity to make trouble for itself. Instead of taking an issue, mulling it over, and making a decision, we seem to prefer taking sides, choosing to identify “us” against “them”? Must we? Why do we continue to identify people so?
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