Finding Friends Along the Yellow Brick Road
A Muslim hipster, a vegetarian drag queen, a good ol' boy from out in the sticks of Randolph County, and a feminist who loves mystery novels all walk into an audition... No, it isn't the beginning of a tedious joke; its exactly the sort of thing that regularly happens when my local community theatre group holds auditions for shows. It's easy to gaze upon your smart phone and feel a bit of discriminating superiority as you read acid-tongued tweets about those "other people" who disagree with your political, social, and religious beliefs. Viral memes which ridicule anyone who could possibly support idiotic candidates or policies are so easy and fun to share. It is now simpler than ever to lump all of those ignorant buffoons together and dismiss them into the category of persons for whom nobody has time. Sometimes I yearn for the pre-social media days when I didn't have to know that the nice lady I just met at the gym was a member of the Facebook group ...
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