A big idea on a small scale

Generally, I notice most of the things I choose to write serisouly about tend to be about the human condition. Not only that, but I also make some fairly accurate generalizations about, well, everyone that is human I suppose. I just have a strong core belief that no two people are really that different. Of course, even I don't practice what I preach sometimes, but I don't think that just because one is imperfect, doesn't mean that he or she cannot point out the imperfection that has devided us into our own seperate cultures, cliques, and communities. While none of these things are in themselves, bad, I think like anything else, they can be twisted and manupilated by the powers that be, into something rather wrong and disgusting.

First of all, think of the irony. Community is the idea that people who live in a similar loaction, share the same ideas, and have common goals should unite. Community is everywhere, and no one would say that community as a concept is a bad idea. However, whether we realize it or not, this thing that is supposed to bring us together does a pretty good job at tearing us apart. I'm talking about when worlds collide.

Community (I'm really going to use that word a lot it looks like) has been, for the most part, reduced to a small scale, and because of that, the idea has been defeated. If we keep the idea of community on a small scale, we never get to fully enjoy it on a large scale. The global community. The human population. In small groups, (I'm avoiding using the c-word) people share what makes them the same, and why they should be in community with each other. Quite often, the ideals of one community are in conflict with another. This leads to exclusion, and often times, it can lead to the despising of the other.

This presents a problem. If we shoot people in other groups down, we make our group exclusive, and thereby killing the whole communal concept. I think TRUE community happens on a world wide scale, when people look past the things that seperate them and instead, focus on the things that bring us together. This is an age-old idea, and it has almost been beaten to death, but as many times as this concept has been regurgitated NO ONE SEEMS TO GET IT. Nobody has said anything that makes it stick. Sure there have been those revolutionarys who make themselves known at the peak of their generation, but over time they fade into the background, and are soon just more names in history books that no one really gives a second thought to.

I'm not even trying to be the person that makes it stick with people. I can't even make it stick with myself, much less influence the whole world into this sort of "Peace and Love" trip. Alls I am trying to do is alert people of the irony and hypocrasy that leads us down our paths. We are mastered by our fears and our depravity. The person who learns to control his fear, no matter what it is, will truly be the great one among us.