We see how the others are separated by space and in this case by text. Words oftentimes keep us apart and in our separate clubs. The other is one phrase I hear in my echo chamber regularly these days. I have a bit of a trigger for it now…and not a good one because it has the the flavor and feel of a big framing hammer. It has one job—to pound the nail on somebody’s head. The users of the word, as Randy Newman might sing, is to want you to hurt like they do. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJGPv66Pc24))

I created this graphic on Pablo (https://pablo.buffer.com). The creators of the site have created a slowly expanding feature set that allows simple to emergingly complex visuals. For example, there are different fonts with bold and italic in three font sizes. There are several different frame sizes intended for Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. You can upload or use the default pix. The images can have three different contrasts and blurring levels as well as your choice of color filters. You can also zoom in on the image as well as reposition it. Plenty of gears to do the work.

I chose this picture after putting the word “two” in the image search engine. It failed to return anything for “other” and “either” and “binary” just showed me zero’s and one’e images a la The Matrix. So we are unlike computers where the silicon gate in the chip is either on or off. Humans are always on and we measure in terms of one or two usually. Perhaps we need to take our cue from the fact that our fingers are called digits and there are many of them.