Strata

We live in a society that is heavily stratified. Groups have been formed based on financial worth, on education, on class, on ethnicity and just about everything else. On the one hand that is fine, but if everyone was the same we would not be able to distinguish one person from another, and is it not by these differences that we know one another? However, our world unfortunately does not see differences as a strength but uses these differences to subjugate one another. The rich exploit the poor, the knowledgeable beguile the ignorant, the hoi polio belittle the worker and, in what defies logic, the ancestry of one group of people gives them rank and file over another in a blazing display of arrogance. Unlike this, the Earth finds strength in its strata. Layer upon layer the Earth relies on this structure to continuously build upon and forge a firmament that allows man to walk upon its back. Would that we could see our differences as a strength and benefit from it like the Earth rather than allowing it to tear us apart.