Paranoia. Mass hysteria. suspect your neighbor.
Report anything suspicious. Community is dead. Our
social fabric is shredded with no chance for cohesion.
Divide and conquer is a military strategy yet we squabble
over petty differences and trust no one, not even our
neighbor as we draw and fortify boundaries. Does anyone
else see this happening in America?
People tear down rather than build up. Rather than
work with the best our cohorts have to offer we
politicize and posture.
These are dangerous times, not because of terrorism,
but because of terrorism and our own suspicions. With
paranoia we invite the terrorists in.
The solution is trust. Each one of us must reach out
to someone and establish a measure honesty. We must
prove our reliability to one another, if there is enough
time. The boundaries are steep. The dogma and
bureaucratic quagmire may be too overwhelming. A common
value system may not exist anymore whereby we can base
our trust upon.
