Are we united by our optimism?
Or . . . are we united by our despair?
Our desperation?
Our doubt?
Here I believe is a really important question: Where does the rugged individualism which we see as the hallmark of a true American fit in?
How can we be united if we each have our own priorities and agenda?
Maybe we're not united at all.
Maybe it's all an illusion.
Maybe the United States of America is more like United Airlines, or United Van Lines. Catchy name but it doesn't really allude to any real or even imagined unity.
And speaking of huge corporations, maybe we are united as customers, shareholders and employees of the vast corporations which seem to run everything these days. We are the biologic modules of a sprawling corporate Gaia, united in our service to interlocking clusters of entrepreneurial entities.
Less abstract and more the stuff of day-to-day living . . .
Are we united by the automobile?
Are we united by television?
Are we united by smart phones?
Are we united by the internet?
Holiday sales?
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