What Greg is saying here is that we're all the same yet we choose not to accept this truth by "forging little plays of deception and pain". In other words, we build little soothing lies to make ourselves feel important, independent, and individualistic. parallel lines are two lines that coincide with each other but never cross each other. Greg is saying that this is a problem because we are deliberately keeping ourselves from connecting with other human beings because we want to be individuals. We could be so much better as a united people. another thing parallel lines also do is run in the same direction. Just like parallel lines we humans do too run in the same direction, we just dont seem to recognize this and is deprecating the advancement of the human race.
What Greg is saying here is that we're all the same yet we choose not to accept this truth by "forging little plays of deception and pain". In other words, we build little soothing lies to make ourselves feel important, independent, and individualistic. parallel lines are two lines that coincide with each other but never cross each other. Greg is saying that this is a problem because we are deliberately keeping ourselves from connecting with other human beings because we want to be individuals. We could be so much better as a united people. another thing parallel lines also do is run in the same direction. Just like parallel lines we humans do too run in the same direction, we just dont seem to recognize this and is deprecating the advancement of the human race.