Who Is Ordinary?

Ordinary is the protagonist of my one person show, Origins of Ordinary. Ordinary represents an ideal, a set of beliefs and values about our role here as performers on the stage of life. All people are one family, equally worthy of love and care. Ordinary lives in this world, where a Few believe that they are more important than the Many, and have structured our societies around this belief. Lords and serfs. Kings and peasants. Rich and poor. The few and the many. Ordinary is the many. Ordinary can also be the few. Suffering happens when too few of the few choose to be Ordinary. 

The few and the many model is a natural result of the nature of existence. The old adage, too many cooks spoil the broth speaks true. When you're putting on a show, having one director in charge of the cast, that's typical. Stories contain major characters and minor characters. Hierarchical structures occur because they serve desirable outcomes. Stars get their own dressing room, and that works out well enough, when the rest of the cast and the crew also get their needs met.

That is what Ordinary is about, seeing that everybody involved gets at the least, their basic needs met. Let the few have their fewness, as long as the many has enough to keep the inevitable suffering of life within acceptable levels. Ordinary folk must work together to keep the sharing of the world in balance. When the sharing of the world gets out of balance, ordinary folk must band together, and take extra steps to restore balance. 

This is the vow of the ordinary. Every human being is a member of my extended family, and I have an obligation to reduce preventable suffering wherever possible. 

And that concludes my post for today.