Reflection on Commonality

I am working on a painting where the tonal qualities of the color are all very similar. Statisticians might know this as the range of tones is very narrow, and this is causing pain because the colors are always overlapping and fighting one another.

Everyone seems to think, including me, that finding commonality in people leads to a reduction in conflict. Maybe conflict increases when people realize we are more alike than we like to believe. People are fighting for intellectual, visual, and emotional superiority in a world that is fairly uniform. Maybe religions are all the same with different names. Maybe cultures are all the same with just the methods of showing characterizations being different. What if we stopped trying to find commonality. A homogeneous world would be pretty boring. It already is homogeneous in many respects. Maybe, that is why war has been so prevalent for the last 100 years. People are just fighting to be different from one another.