Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Loss of Identity in the [u.] S.


m.e. bradford
 
 
The [u]nited States is a frustrating place to live.  So much that gives meaning to life is dissolved in the quest to gain money or ‘freedom’.  One’s identity is not grounded in the traditional soil of Church, family, clan, city, region, nation, empire, and so on but simply in job occupation, leisure activities, and/or the abstractions of various political constitutions and charters.

This unhealthy imbalance has seemingly led to another unhealthy imbalance meant to correct the former:  Race is becoming one of the most important factors in forming one’s identity in the States.  Thus, the rise of La Raza, white nationalists, Black Panthers, etc.

Even the Orthodox clergy in the States seem unbalanced in their attempts to deal with this, in a recent statement bordering on the denial that nationality, ethnicity, and so forth have any real value for the present or the future:
 
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