Sorting all of that out and coming to some workable conclusions, personal practices or perspectives and some effective social interactions without going mad and/or becoming a sheep -- Is there even a difference? -- can be a real challenge. Some people call that "thinking outside the box", but then it seems many or even most of us must still learn to live within the flock. So in the final analysis, all of us are the same in the sense of needing to understand, respect and even tolerate differences in others.