Since the recent Presidential election in the USA, it seemed odd that they have not moved on from the result as in the past, to get on with the task of re-building. There seems to be some soul searching going on in some segments of the society. Things seemed a bit foggy in the beginning, but somethings seem to have become clearer.
Short of outright violence, there is a 'war' going on in society. It seems like there is a battle raging for the soul of the USA - what it is and what it stands for. Suddenly there is a great effort to tell and define what has traditionally made it a great prosperous and powerful nation, what built it up and made it such a magnet for so many and a supposedly more 'modern', 'global' valued version of how the USA should be.
The strange thing is that on the one side there is almost half the population that felt neglected and has risen up to reclaim the soul and power of their nation. On the other side there is another segment, supported by the overwhelming mainstream media, 'celebrities', many external powers, leaders of various countries, all claiming to tell everyone what the soul of the USA is - what it really means to be an 'American'. Fear and distrust is being sown and even encouraged. There are people of all ethnicities on both sides, just varying in proportion.
Whenever this has happened in the past - someone else telling a people or interpreting for the world what their values are, it has never gone down well, particularly if a majority or the largest segment is ignored, deliberately so. The results of others defining or imposing what they consider the values of a people, without listening to them, has always ended in disaster for both the people and their definers. The people of the USA need to unite and they need to be allowed to come together peacefully, by all meddling 'others'. A disaster in the USA will have multiplied and worse effects around the world. It is a good idea for others to leave it be, even as it is trying to focus more internally.
Copyright (c) Kannan Narayanamurthy 2017
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Short of outright violence, there is a 'war' going on in society. It seems like there is a battle raging for the soul of the USA - what it is and what it stands for. Suddenly there is a great effort to tell and define what has traditionally made it a great prosperous and powerful nation, what built it up and made it such a magnet for so many and a supposedly more 'modern', 'global' valued version of how the USA should be.
The strange thing is that on the one side there is almost half the population that felt neglected and has risen up to reclaim the soul and power of their nation. On the other side there is another segment, supported by the overwhelming mainstream media, 'celebrities', many external powers, leaders of various countries, all claiming to tell everyone what the soul of the USA is - what it really means to be an 'American'. Fear and distrust is being sown and even encouraged. There are people of all ethnicities on both sides, just varying in proportion.
Whenever this has happened in the past - someone else telling a people or interpreting for the world what their values are, it has never gone down well, particularly if a majority or the largest segment is ignored, deliberately so. The results of others defining or imposing what they consider the values of a people, without listening to them, has always ended in disaster for both the people and their definers. The people of the USA need to unite and they need to be allowed to come together peacefully, by all meddling 'others'. A disaster in the USA will have multiplied and worse effects around the world. It is a good idea for others to leave it be, even as it is trying to focus more internally.
Copyright (c) Kannan Narayanamurthy 2017
All rights reserved
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