We Are The Difference

This is the conclusion that has culminated in the creation of the Fundamentally Different YouTube channel and online community. We don’t need to look terribly far around us to see the negative. There are broken communities, broken people, dysfunctional discourse, anger, dissatisfaction, and violence surrounding nearly everyone. Sometimes closer and sometimes further away—but never far from our eyeballs every night on the evening news.

Fundamentally Different is the culmination of an idea that I’ve had for years now. The idea that if we’re going to be overwhelmed with images that make us hate ourselves, to disbelieve in our ability to change and to transform…if we’re going to be bombarded with videos and messages that tell us to distrust our neighbor, to hate those who are differed. If we’re going to be assaulted hourly with negative, then we had better darn sure be active in seeking out the positive.

Data from clinical studies tell us that we need multiples of positive encounters and interactions to counteract the effect of a single negative occurrence. And common sense tells us that we’re often so busy, so overwhelmed, or so worried that we seldom hit the mark. As a consequence, that sense of the world as a negative and foreboding place; that feeling that you’re stuck and incapable of making meaningful change; the notion that people are disconnected and angry begins to slowly pervade our thinking.

Fundamentally Different is founded on the notion that if we are part of the problem, then we must be the agents of change. If we are the problem, we can also be the difference. We believe in you, we believe in your communities, and we believe in the people that comprise this planet.