"What is color? I used to think that white is all color as it reflects all wavelengths, and black is no color as it absorbs all light. Those are true. Yet it is also true that black is all colors, as when one combines all colors of paint, black results. To us, color is what our brains tell us we see based on the wavelengths of light reflected by the surface and detected by the receptors in our retinas. To another species, earthly or extra-terrestrial, the colors we perceive in an object may look entirely different. Yet, is it different? The lenses through which we observe various matters, both tangible and intangible, color our perspectives. (See my Of Lenses, A poem on differing perspectives).

When a person is color blind, does the object or person observed have color? Does color matter, or is it just a label, and labels limit and obscure the true essence?"

I then proceed to quote an essay that I loved by a writer named Jennsipidy:

It was my first day of kindergarten, and as I peered into my brand new box of 64, there were all shades of grey…light grey, dark grey, and even blue grey. From the beginning, there was always grey. My Mom would say,” The world is not black and white; it is grey.” The meaning of her words was lost on me at the time, but as I grew older, I understood. … It was the very definition of how we interacted with others, and acceptance was as easily given as it was received. … Groupthink has replaced individual thought. Gone are the days of voicing one’s opinions or thoughts if it does not fit the declared narrative. Our imagination is a gift that should be shared with the world. If something can be imagined, there is typically someone who has the ability to bring it to fruition. … We must use our imagination to make the world a better place. … There should be no set of rules that require groupthink that has been determined by a small sector of the world population.

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I miss grey. It made the world so colorful. Now it is only black and white.

That's all in my https://medium.com/pitfall/the-world-especially-the-middle-east-reflects-more-shades-of-grey-than-any-box-of-crayola-crayons-50dca751d2db, which I wrote back in August, i.e., before the shit hit the fan in October