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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