Divide and Conquer

I just got home. It was a busy day in busy December.

I wrote last night and didn't post. And, I wrote in the car today as Nick drove me to Greenville to pick up my car at the auto shop. (It's purring happily now. It's a really good car. Audi A4... I recommend to anyone considering it.)

I thought about a lot of things today and discussed some of them with Nick, and later at dinner with our friends, we had many really interesting conversations.

The things I noticed myself saying a lot today, I may have to delve into on another occasion, but will post my jotted thoughts from earlier in the day. Please forgive mistakes; I am really sleepy.

It started here, with this thought...

There is no minority and there is no majority. To be considered either assumes even two of three are alike, which is an absurd falsehood. No two individuals or circumstances are the same and to be lumped into either category should be considered a personal offense.

Then, I went on...

When watching a group of individuals unite against another group of individuals based on qualities broad in nature and diverse in their own right, one can draw a conclusion that these ideas causing the divide are not coming from inside the self, but outside the self, by political forces standing to gain control or benefit from the conflict. And there is an entity that does stand to gain from groups dividing and conquering each other. As the world keeps changing and the people keep blending, it will become more apparent that the need to categorize one's self into this group or that is a stretch of the imagination and feels forced. It will be interesting to watch the transition from what has been racial separation become one more of culture encompassing status and privilege and even information. Where this division once laid upon religion and skin color and wealth, an idea to be free of such ignited, and a nation verged on independence of such, only to be wrangled by the clever manipulation of political correctness and entitlement and those throwing the ropes of confinement.

Then I added a bit more...

For the government or controlling institutions- it works better this way. They want it.

The attempt of individual liberty sparked a nation founded on and in pursuit of freedom and betterment of each human's rights- and although failures and blatant wrongdoings have ensued- we now stand on the grounds of individual compliance versus liberty, unity of the paranoid versus the secure, acceptance of fright versus bravery, and reliance on dictation versus common sense. We, in an attempt to encompass all cultures without offense to one, have devoured diversity and digested it into a cultural void.

And that is what my head is like... blah, blah, blah... all the time! Does it even make sense? Or, am I delirious and distracted?

Maybe I'll hit on some of the other subjects that consume my thoughts later.

Until then, night-night.