We're supposed to be divided; by economic status, by political beliefs, by conditions of employment, by region, by race, by our interests and hobbies, by whether we work for government or the private sector, even by what style clothes we wear and what sort of music we listen to. We're supposed to take these trivialities and use them to look at others by the standard of “us vs them”. We're supposed to magnify our differences and overlook our similarities. We're supposed to look for reasons to dislike others, rather than reasons to like others. I thought we were to view people as individuals and leave the group classifications to the Marxists.
Why should we really care about when a person is born? What matters is the individual qualities of that person, not his birthday.
That’s wrong. People are defined by their birthday and what time they were born. Don’t you get it? Our whole society is predicated on mass consumerism and labeling. We put labels on foods, buildings, bus stops, high school lockers, laptops, notebooks, book bags, buses, cars, etc. etc. We are all part of the collective. To be an individual is to invite destruction. Come with me child. Come back to the garden where we can rejoice in the musical stylings of Joan Baez and Cat Stevens. Come back to the garden.