Thursday, November 8, 2018

"When did our country . . ."


"When did our country become so divided?"

That's a question that has been thrown around a lot before, during, and after this mid-term election.

Become?


Anyone remember the Sons of Liberty and The Boston Tea Party?

How about that little skirmish called The Civil War?  (Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts).

Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Watergate, Vietnam . . .  Hell, Wikipedia has a page titled "List of Social Movements" that includes well over 100 movements that divide people. 

Including, but not limited to:
    Animal rights movement
    Anti-Apartheid Movement
    Anti-bullying movement
    Anti-capitalism
    Anti-consumerism
    Anti-corporate activism
    Anti-fascism
    Anti-nuclear movement
    Anti-war movement
    Anti-globalization movement
    Anti-vaccination movement
    Black Lives Matter
    Cultural movement
    Counterculture movement
    Disability rights movement
    Environmental movement
    Fair trade movement
    Feminist movement
    Gay rights movement
    Ku Klux Klan
    Labor movement
    Me Too movement
    Occupy Wall Street
    Organic movement
    Pro-choice movement
    Pro-life movement
Even a Slow movement
Though, admittedly, it's hard to argue with this one!
  
Needless to say, the U.S. has NEVER been united.  And maybe that's a good thing.  No matter how extreme a situation is, it will change.  Natural events balance themselves out by seeking their opposites and thus healing.  Actually, without these imbalances, there would be no movement in life.  Without flow, our pool of life would just be a . . .

"Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
John Mason Good  

As history has shown, it takes time.  It may take days, years, even lifetimes.  But, change it will:  destruction and healing, over and over again.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson told me today, "Each generation has to write its own book for the succeeding  The books of an older period will not fit this one." 



Maybe it's time to start the "Turn Off the TV and Internet and Be Present and Patient" Movement. 

Carpe diem Life
David Kuhn

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