| I support the idea that all guests of Planet Earth are evolving. Some of that appears to be helping many people to see that we are all in this together and that the more sophisitcated "we" solutions are replacing the "them and us" solutions. But that same evolution is also bringing a kind of respect for diversity, a realization that there are, for example, many paths to enlightenment. I think this part goes even deeper in that social analysis is telling us that diversity is a kind of untapped strength only because of how poorly managed its been up til now -- its that crucial.
So the possibility of becoming overly organized in a way that would create one government or one religion or one culture does not seem even remotely likely to me.
Even here in the US where there has been a strong homogenizing of our culture by big business, there remains the old regional culture beneath it and new imput creates new differences too fast for the homogenizing elements to essentially take over.
I found that to better understand the world, its good to understand its nations, and to better understand nations, its good to understand groups. And to better understand groups, its good to understand families. And to understand families, its best to understand people. What I found in my understanding of people is while what we have in common is huge (we all basically want the same things regardless of who we are), how we express our lives remains very diverse because the world was set up by its creator with a dizzying array of choices. I suspect that was on purpose too! |