Search This Blog   Sunday, October 21, 2012  "No Man is an
Island"  "In nature we never see anything isolated, but
everything in connection with something else ..." -- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe  Humanity has lived under an illusion.  Many
believe that we have unlimited independence of choice.  Reality
demonstrates otherwise.  What is it that restricts choice?  It
is connection, connection across space and time.  Connection
creates the need for moral/ethical behavior.  In the United
States, we often hear social commentators state that the
American mantra is "What's in it for me?"  The consequence of
this is a disconnected America drawing closer and closer to
anarchy.  Wouldn't we be better served as a nation, if we
changed that question to "What's in it for us?"  My father was a
dentist.  In his office, he had a cutaway picture of a human
body showing the potential effect of one cavity on various parts
of the body.  Virtually every part of the body could be affected
by that one cavity.  The human body is a sy