the fault-line of our society is the dehumanization by power that we are statistics described by the inheritance of our appearances not the generosity of our spirit, empathy intelligence uninfected by the arrogance of the search for immortality nor the delusions and cruelty of a god made in our image we rise above the false virtues of willful ignorance distilled deference to our insecurities arrogant pride to stand in front of our mirror and know a deep truth that we are so much more than a surface reflection made by a narrow frequency of artificial light we are the faces of each other in a fractal shell arisen from an unimaginably old deep well