Can the West be One?

The rugged individualism that characterizes America has its beginning in a group of people considered derelicts and outlaws, not unlike Australia… were the reasons any more or less important, or the political system any more or less different, or crooked?

Having its basis for survival being the individual modes of transportation such as the horse, and soon after, the wagon, what a challenge to now expect present day America to sacrifice that individuality by using public transportation? Is there any hope? Then there is the industrial revolution, where mass production stole the preciousness of each thing.

Add to that the lack of a sense of rooted culture that leaves a people devoid of the significance of everyday things; there is left no demarcation for the children of this time into adulthood, as is so important in other cultures. Jung had much to say on this subject as well. Where is the transition from child to adult? Some are made to assume the duties of an adult even before puberty, for many reasons, and were doomed from a single-digit age; then some never experience the transition, and forever wonder and fight for their identity.

Keep these people occupied with gas prices, threat levels, photo radar – well, that’s for another time; but these are the hungry ghosts in whose unsteady hands our future trembles.