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Doc, sorry you hold so little hope.  There are a lot of negative vibes in the air.  People have been working very hard to undo the essence of the Civil Rights movement, which is to focus on what we have in common rather than what makes us different from one another.

That is the cultural source of division.  The Me is overcoming the We.  That hurts a marriage, it can't help a nation.  I  made a crass comment last year about American becoming the nation of the Darma Queen and the Attention Whore. (Applies to both genders, by the way, I am at least a third level attention whore myself.)  Maybe the balance between the whole and the part is slightly out of whack.

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I know. My worry is, if they undo the essence of the Civil Rights movement, will I cease to exist?

Sound corny? You bet. But it crosses my mind several times a day.

Hope is mostly meaningless. It is a carrot dangled cruely in front of a beast of burdon that they will never reach. It is a lie to the self of some great reward if we could just somehow reach it. But it moves with us. Away from us. Never toward us. It's always some distant goal that we must reach.

I say do away with it.

Create your own reality as you go. Shape your own destiny. Manufacture your own future as you go. But do not illusion your self with hope. Fortify your self with truth, as bleak as it may seem, and dare to be different and do the right thing inspite of the odds, or however foolish one might seem. Dare to be David against Goliath. Stand your ground and do it on your own terms with your own two hands. But do not hope. Be courageous and charge blindly forward knowing that you shape what will become of you with your own hands... Life is what you make of it.

But do it for your own reasons under your own motivations that come from internal sources. Do not rely on outward sources of deceit.