Unity and peace among people won’t be found by focusing on our differences but by embracing our commonalities. Representation is an incoherent concept for fixing human society and eliminating injustice because there is no limit to how you can divide people by their differences. If we can’t find the commonality within one another and set our standards higher than some power game of personal preference, we’ll always be chasing justice, always resenting one another, always be finding some new problem.
In the end, we’re individuals, and we can be subdivided right up to our single identities. We don’t have to embrace pure collectivism and uniformity to solve the problems of humanity. And we don’t have to embrace solipsism and divisionism and radical individualism either. There’s a diversity of individuals and a unity of essence in the human race. There are qualities we all share and aspire to. If we make them our focus, principles, instead of identity, we can preserve our individuality and unite our commonalities.
The more we focus on tit for tat and retroactive responsive, corrective jerrymandering, because we’re focused on division, difference, and individualities, the more we’ll drift away from our goals and principles in the end. Deliberate inconsistency won’t help us be principled or unified. Deliberate inconsistency is the problem, not the solution.
Making Nobody Happy 