Joseph Pearce
The fact is that “unity” is not always good, and “division” is not always bad. Indeed, some unity is downright diabolical. There is, for instance, nothing more united than a mob. The mob mentality is nothing other and nothing less than toxic unity.

When G.K. Chesterton first came to the United States and visited New York City he was struck by, and even dazzled by, the lights of Broadway. “I had looked, not without joy, at that long kaleidoscope of coloured lights arranged in large letters and sprawling trade-marks, advertising everything, from pork to pianos, through the agency of the two most vivid and most mystical of the gifts of God; colour and fire.” He was also struck by the chasm that separated the gargantuan glitz from the trash and trivia of the products being advertised. “What a glorious garden of wonders this would be,” he remarked, “to any one who was lucky enough to be unable to read.”
These days, it is not necessary to go to Broadway or Times Square to be affronted by flashing electronic billboards. They are everywhere. One can hardly drive a mile or two on any urban freeway without these eyesores disrupting the view of the landscape and distracting the serenity of the mind’s eye. Most of these affront our aesthetic sensibilities by the manner in which the ugliness of the medium matches the ugliness of the message. Occasionally, however, these billboards are not merely provoking but thought-provoking. One such billboard caught my attention recently and set me thinking. Most of its electronic space was taken up by a photograph of Martin Luther King Junior. Accompanying this image were words of advice that were almost an admonition: “Hope for unity in a world of division.” I’m not a scholar of Martin Luther King Junior, but I suspect that these are not his words but those of someone who is using or rather abusing his image to advertise an aphorism of their own,  » Read More
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