Through Diverse Views
Words and music by Iiridayn © 3 Feb 2026

Each hand upon a different part,
Each witness something new; *
The lines we draw keep us apart
And hide the wider view.
	Through diverse views is truth made clear

The way you think or who you love,
The skin that you can't choose
Some hold their own a cut above
And treat you like refuse
	Through diverse views is truth made clear

Or push aside the ones lain low
By illness, age, or pain;
Refuse to hear what they may know,
And learn it all again. [and again and again and again]
	Through diverse views is truth made clear

The struggle hidden from the eye
The pain they do not know,
Some doubt it's real or if you try
So you don't let it show.
	Through diverse views is truth made clear

The cast out then repeat the trend
LARP, furry, otherkin,
To grasp the truth our strife must end
Despite the groups we're in
	Through diverse views is truth made clear



Tagged: diversity, common meter

Have a rough tune. Can probably sing to roughly any CM tune, though the refrain would complicate that a bit.

The Robbers Cave Experiment and Dunbar's number both influenced the conclusion, and Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers the refrain.

I had the help of AI in writing this - since that can be a very ambiguous claim I've included a link to the conversation permitting individual judgement of relative human authorship. The AI judged it ~80% human, but is also known to be sycophantic.