There is a powerful trend in U.S. society. You can use different words to describe it but
basically, we are segregating ourselves into communities that are like ourselves. No one is
forcing us to do this; we are choosing to. Perhaps we do it because are simply less challenged
and most affirmed there.
But it is hurting us, at least in the long run. It is helping to ruin the social fabric that should hold
us together. It is making us narrow-minded, seeing only our own points of view and unable to
see another point of view. It is, in other words, helping to polarize us. It allows us to withdraw
from a broader vision of public life. It makes us think that ͞our kids͟ are only our biological
children and that we are not responsible for ͞all our kids.͟ It means that we don’t worry about
͞those people.͟
This is worth reflecting about. While the discussion is often at the national level, it is also very relevant and even at the core of what a town and a parish are.
I will post a series of books that are on point for this topic.
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