commonality+reflection

Ideas make everything interesting.

Ironically, the //United// States of America lacks any sort of unification. This is due to a current and historical inability to consider new ideas or acknowledge the many great ones that do exist across the country. For any sort of unification, it needs to be recognized by individual Americans that they are not in this country by themselves and although individuality is definitely something that should be praised, one cannot survive alone, without truly living with others, without hearing ideas other than their own. While the items on the previous page raise issues with American communication and ability to recognize commonality, each is an expression of the artists' ideas and an effort for public recognition of their ideas so they can come together and think together. Even if ideas are contrasting, however, it is still necessary that they are put together in reasonable ways and the sharing of ideas is encouraged nationally (and hopefully this type of communication can expand globally as well). When ideas are limited, national sanity becomes problematic- out of discontentment with political decisions and political focus and frusturation amid social interactions- and divisions are quickly created.

"Society has the duty to promote open discussion of all issues- otherwise it will be in fact promoting real subversion as the only means of implementing ideas." Tom Hayden, //The Port Huron Statement//, 1962.



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