babel
Be careful what you wish for.
The US social contract is broken.
Organisms in the body don’t function for themselves. They provide an essential function that enables many other parts of the body to function.
If we want unity as a people, we need to remember how to function as a collective body.
the mythology of the tower of babel illustrates what happens when we as humans forfeit our power as a collective in exchange for individual, egoic pursuit of power and control.
In the story, the people decide they want to build the highest tower on earth in order to reach god and essentially become gods themselves. They begin building, but eventually, there is a scattering that takes place, with each person eventually hyperfixating on their own “language” of power and control. This results in the project being abandoned and the people’s social contract (their “language”) being fractured, creating disconnection and disempowerment in the collective.
In reality, the universal language of any ego is complete fixation on itself, which must ultimately be reinforced by a ruthless pursuit of absolute power and control, and so it becomes deaf to other languages—other egos’ languages, as well as non-egoic and non-dual languages.
We are not our brains. We inhabit our bodies. When we remember this, we are remembering a common language, the first utterings of which are necessarily: “tear the tower down until not a single brick remains.”
When we remember the common language of the body, we also recover belonging, worthiness, and connection because we resume our lives as critical organisms within a collective Body. In other words, we are part of something bigger than ourselves, if we have the courage to accept it.