What is very nice about "this day and age" is that we can find true friends and all of us are becoming more alike and more tolerant of one-another from exposure and familiarity - not less. The World is becoming a community, but we need to get past the strangeness that is manifest in never hugging nor smelling one-another. Perhaps we are?

I however, am an animal and as such prefer to have my friends close and to smell them, to know their body language - 'to feel them'. I find it hard to imagine dropping everything in my life to come and fight a neighboring people by your side.

Is this homogenization, dilution and pacification of our loyalties to one another a necessary step toward World Community?

Does it make us easier to control?

It may even help us develop long-term goals with a sort of single-purposefulness if not mindedness, no?

Is this desirable? Maybe.

I guess it just depends upon who is in fact "in control" - doesn't it?

I suspect that we will find it to be "Mother Nature" who is in fact always "In Control".

Just one thought,
Thom