Some Thoughts on the Subject of "Unity"
There is a great deal of talk in the western world lately, most of it
specious in my opinion, on the importance of “unity” along with
denunciations of “division”. Much of this has been aimed at the current
American president, some even setting up non-stop live stream sessions
of people chanting, “you will not divide us”. For most of these people, I
have no doubt, it is nothing more than the latest, fashionable,
mindless talking point because, under other circumstances, they love
nothing more than dividing people. They love dividing people so much
that when they have exhausted existing divisions, they invent completely
new ones to focus on. There have long been racial divisions, ethnic
divisions, religious divisions and of course political divisions but in
many parts of the world those were no longer sufficient. In much of
Europe, for example, everyone in a given country was the same race and
ethnicity, so there were no divisions there. Most people had given up on
their own religion and had generally prohibited religious division
anyway (when northern Europe became officially Lutheran the Catholic
Church was quickly banned) so there was nothing to do on that front.
Even in the area of politics, liberalism had won the day and no
alternative was given serious consideration.
