When England created the first industrial revolution in the 17th century, it carried with it a global movement of the English all over the world creating their empire. The English became a global people and their people thought globally. When America created in the 19th and 20th centuries across the American continent a massive explosion of advanced industrial development, it also carried with it a global movement of Americans all over the world. Why is it then that we Americans are unable to realize that we are a global people and are unable, it seems, to think globally? Is it possible that we can not understand that our language is studied and spoken in every country on earth and that our corporations, our technologies, our diplomats and our military are vitally active in all nations globally creating radically new universal social practices? Worse still, we seem incapable of mentally reconstructing American history and coming to the conclusion, the only one possible, that our union of states was not created by our founding fathers with the intention of establishing a nation. Yet it is a current belief among us that we are “a nation” and this “nation” is “the leader of the free world”. The truth has little to do with such abstract constructions. We are not a nation and because each of our 50 states are freer and more democratic than most nations on earth there is a real basis for our having tried our best for a hundred years to make the rest of the world free also. Our political system is the most advanced and the best and the most radical and the happiest that humanity has ever erected on our globe. I guess we do not think globally because we are afraid that giving humanity the keys to our brave new system would disrupt too radically our huge happy homeland. The English created a worldwide system and were forced to dismantle it. The Russians created a union of 15 states and then broke it up. I suppose thinking of our union of 50 states stretching from Florida to Alaska 4000 miles away as a nation is a way we Americans have stumbled upon to break up our union of states mentally. We want to be a nation like everyone else when we should be trying globally to make everyone else’s nation a member state of our prosperous union.
Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.
The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.
tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845
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