tanx for bringin' all that to my attention, Auendove, and everyone else who contributed ... (i feel a little more caught-up now)
you know what ? as crazy as all this is - i don't think the story has changed much at all since the days of way back when we were tribes beating on one another, trying to take each other over, to control and rule over ourselves ... we're so fragmented ... it's like, 1 fragment is always trying to control another fragment ... and i think the root of it all is because our psyches are fragmented ... like the way some people deal with their thoughts/feelings ... deny, suppress, resist, control ... that's all fragmentation -- the result -- we are divided as nations, we live our lives in compartments - go to work and be competitive against one another during the day, then come home and kiss our loved ones and tell them we love them ... there's also contradiction in that sense ...
the only difference now is that i guess certain fragments that perceived themselves as separate are threatening the whole of humanity or at least are threatening us on a larger scale than ever before ...
... checking out the mirror of relationship ...