The End of Integration
FreeDemocracy.com (http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/david-brooks-end-of-integration.html)
by DAVID BROOKS
"Expecting integration, Americans find themselves confronting polarization and fragmentation. Amid all the problems that have made Americans sour and pessimistic, this is the deepest."
"But it could be the dream of integration itself is the problem. It could be that it was like the dream of early communism — a nice dream, but not fit for the way people really are.
For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors lived in small bands. Surviving meant being able to distinguish between us — the people who will protect you — and them — the people who will kill you. Even today, people have a powerful drive to distinguish between us and them."
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Another article discovered in todays' papers' op-ed section on the theme that we homosapiens haven't risen that far above our too-slowly-changing evolutionary firmware. Thank you Roberts Supreme Court for finally realizing that the dream is just a dream, and clearing the way so our society may return to our base instincts with impunity...
Karen