Thursday, December 21, 2017

Sins of Multiculturalism??



Sins of Multiculturalism??


Multiculturalism-the conscious acknowledgement of parallel to competing cultural 
strains-has always existed, but was 'confined' or repressed to the ethnic communities 
(ghettos). Only the latter-day semi-diaspora from the ghettos and the cultural contrast 
in discernment of the emigres from the ghettos, plus their new, formerly mostly 
homogeneous host-neighbors  created the de facto schisms that have now become 
secularized in institutions and politics.

This is a result of liberated minds and the re-formation (though I dare say 'reformation') 
of the cultural narrative and its emphasis of agreed commonality, of which the many 
sides now find schisms of differences.

'Do the trains run as smoothly on time' as before? No. But we're talking about an 
organism, even if it's a social organism, and not some programmed machine of 
efficiency. As was said for eternity, "...It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated 
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly 
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...".
 We, the People-this Nation, are not some cog for a certain designed end, but much like 
a never-ending work in the process of History.. The karmic retributions of imbalances 
and inequities of the past do catch up with fabricated narratives of the winners of the 
past'.

Much as the antebellum period was one of great social antagonisms and disaffections, 
so it is justly-on both sides today. To seek to claim a universal or absolute standard 
during this gestative period would be akin to naming the gender of the fetus before it 
has reached that point in the process.

Discounting the entrenched views and relying on the practical necessity for cooperation 
in the minutiae of the mundane to accomplish the essential acts, I foresee as an ultimate, 
long term, cultural end that will bring about the politics of a centrifuged consensus, 
if not unity,  for no other reason that more existential threats and dangers from men 
and nature which will require it---THE PROPHET



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