UNITY, THE LACK OF...
We often show up short on unity.
Much talk and tons of print materials are available lauding the historical unities we do have as a nation. We think of ourselves as being the “United States of America” ...fifty states banded together as one nation, but the concept of individuality allowed each of those member states varies a great deal among the people who live in any any particular one of them.
There are still sectional differences which divide us in critical ways. They have always been here and we even went to the extreme of fighting a costly war attempting to solve some of those divisive elements.
And – we keep devising new ones as well
We instigated the current United Nations concept even though we did not exactly approve or join it's previous form - the League of Nations following World War I. We sponsored the development of each system – nurtured them in their formative years, – and found each ,in time, to be less than adequate as a means of establishing and maintaining a semblance of unity and peaceful living to which all men are said to aspire, even among the member nations.
Other factors mitigate against the formation of unifying associations, too.
Travel, as an example, has made it common for social groups of different types to intermingle and contend with each other all around the world, each, more often than not, favoring and working for their own advancement rather than anything of mutual value
` Communication, primarily of an intense computer-technical development, has brought many areas together while enabling each to be more independent of the other.
Even in our play and development of teams for sports undertakings we try to make sure ours is best. The competitive sense urges us to make comparisons and to correct any shortcoming to appear superior, for at time, at least. So much of the world, it seems, looks at Americans as rather willful individuals...even loners, at times, intent on going our particular way, but the phase we are in at this moment in these end days of the year 2002 , may prove something which has been established before. Study history and you will find that this seeming lack of unity is an illusion which is quickly overcome when the people realize they are faced with danger!
It has happened before. When we are convinced danger is upon us, we join together to eliminate the cause of that threat to our well-being.
A.L.M. December 25, 2002 [c426wds]
