{"id":322,"date":"2025-06-09T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:38:34","slug":"taste-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/taste-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Understanding human cognitive bias, and the psychophysical mechanisms that compartmentalize our experience so that we can navigate in a world of endless variation, let us recognize that the rainbow is not actually made up of discrete bands of color \u2013 that is an illusion created by our senses.

As comforting as it may be to align ourselves with one band of color in the rainbow, let us also be able to abandon ourselves to the imperceptible spaces between the bands, as disorienting and vulnerable as that may feel.

We truly are one, and truly need one another to understand the whole.

That sounds very Berkeley. I own it.

If we let go of the idea that we are responsible for knowing everything about the world, and accept that we are actually co-responsible, how much more important is every relationship? How much more care do we take in articulating our perspective? How much more deeply do we listen, and in listening, build connections to parts of the world that we are incapable of hearing, but for our connection with others?

Do you feel me? Who will listen?

Happy Pride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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