A GOOD READ ……….

Human beings are reactionary, for the most part, the norm, judging from afar rather than being activist in a quest for the communion of souls.    ……. We have become a society increasingly predicated on fear and hatred, with mistrust of thy neighbor depicted in a resentful eye, a dominating factor in our daily lives.

In our cults and tribes, the love may flow with the ease of a setting sun with the power of Niagara Falls.  But the dam of hate, built through political insurrection and dog whistle politics has become cascaded in the walls of our democracy.  The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire would be the perfect example of where the direction of our country is headed.  The causes and effects are substantially many, with politics leading the charge.  The Roman Empire’s ruling body lost the strength to exercise effective control thru the instability of the economy, the incompetence of the emperor, the religious changes of the period, the inefficiency of the local civil administration, and racism.   Finally, there was an increase in threats from “barbarians” outside.  Sounds familiar?

By not comparing and contrasting the impending and imminent dangers, notwithstanding all the above indicators, we as a nation fail to smell the smoke nor see the irony of Aesop’s fable “The Four Oxen and the Lion” and in the idiom “United we Stand divided we fall.”