It's a headache really sorting out what's going on in the world today.
Which entities are enemies with each other, and which are friends?
Whether two or more are against one another has less to do with amicability than it does with the teleology of situations.
How we feel about each other, these days, is totally irrelevant.
Until the curtain rises, each person plays many roles.
In the same way, operating systems like Windows and Mac OSX can compete head-to-head and still co-operate. They need each other.
And like these two systems, all of us are essentially just spin-offs of the same immortal, Unix-like ideal.
That is, a work-in-progress.
What?
Every single person is unique, because we are all still working on being unique.
But does anyone really see what's so unique about you? Do they see the work you put into yourself?
If you have invented, composed, or written something significant, this might be the case. You might even have fans, who care to understand what made you unique.
Your uniqueness made just about almost-visible, if you are famous.
And otherwise, probably not. The people we know don't seem to be that unique at all, once we know them.
In the same way as Microsoft and Apple compete, we all need to routinely encounter each others' differences simply in order to keep believing in the idea of uniqueness.
Because in the end, we are all completely different from each other, and it's the interconnectedness of us all that matters far more than our differences for the growth of the terribly sluggish operating system known as Civilization.
Headaches are a small price to pay for inter-operability between totally different worlds. But they happen when we fail to notice that civilized co-operation and the kind of co-operation that happens in code actually take different means to similar ends.
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