color

This post is only about color in a metaphorical sense.  Often, when we think, we think in terms of generics, or what some may call essences.  For example, when reading the word "man", a fuzzy undifferentiated picture of a man pops into view.  Not a particular man, just slightly more than a shadow of a man.  What if the world were made solely of such undifferentiated men, undifferentiated trees, cars, children etc?  A world of fuzzy essences.  Every man looking exactly the same but so indeterminate...
But when we look at those we pass by on the street every day, when we look closely, we see individuated men.  And how different each is from the other!! How different every child is from every other child!!! It seems like such a revelation!!!  Such color!!! How wonderful!! Thank God for the "or"!!!
Yes, the "and" is necessary.  It is necessary that we be able to group all males into the category "man" or "men" so that we can converse and function.  Certainly we need to understand what makes us all the same.  But what a dreary world it would be.