Them/Us

“The thing that I’ve learned is that there is no ‘them.’  It’s just us”.  Ken Burns

I saw this in a New York Times interview of Burns.  In his wide range of documentary work, Burns has of course come across a lot.  Baseball, the Civil War, Hemmingway, National Parks, the Brooklyn Bridge, Country Music….  And he is, of course, correct — “there is no ‘them.’  It’s just us.”  I mean, it is so obvious that it is easy to forget, and headlines notwithstanding, last I checked, we are all occupying the same clod orbiting the same sun as it spins through the same universe.”