I heard a rabbi say that it is the nature of the empire to create sameness, like coins and buildings and houses that all look just the same.
He points to current experience: that companies converge on the profitable middle ground, creating a sameness in broadcast music.
It isn't hard to see how this happened: the all-powerful medium of television created a stagnating sameness in the presentation of politics that verged on parody, and voters and the news media sought to pierce the artifice, with savvy politicians doing what they could to oblige.
We argue, therefore, that choosing a mental computation strategy is an act of relational thinking because it relies on creating implicit transformations that rely squarely on both "sameness" and substitution principles of mathematical equivalence [18].
Musicians must be cajoled into creating a particular kind of unison: not a robotic sameness of execution but a deeper unanimity in which spontaneous activities on the part of each player viscerally realize the conductor's vision.
After the vigils to mourn and honor those who perished today, we must commit anew to making our world not only safe but whole and to creating communities that cross lines of difference, rather than remain entrenched in sameness.
McEnroe believes that Florida's live-in tennis academies have created an assembly-line sameness to America's young players and have contributed to the country's inability to produce big winners on the men's and women's professional tours.
It also proves that in a multi-ethnic culture "harmony creates new substances, while sameness causes decay".
Startups are also growing to provide these experiences of sameness as a product, predicated on the fact that we now prefer consuming ready-made generic spaces to creating new ones of our own.
"...sameness may have been a strength, but now it is creating blindspots," writes by Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and chief executive officer of Social+Capital, a venture capital firm.
