Diary of Anne Frank

people keep saying in USA May 2025: "It started with the Southern Strategy", "it started with the Founding Fathers who supported slavery", "It started with Fox News in 1996", etc, etc.

These problems did not start in the United States of America. The Tower of Babel metaphor goes back thousands of years. People not seeing the "big picture", "forest for the trees" on common ground / "tragedy of the commons" issues is a long-term problem. But the world has only recently had jet airplanes, rockets, airports everywhere, TCP/IP Internet connecting us, global telephone networks, 5G mobile data, reproducible photographs / sound / video for record-keeping, etc. in recent time. We did not KNOW these were global problems in all history in 1776, that slavery and such was a pattern of out-group hate, that every religion in the world had pattern of out-group hate. We did not have Comparative Mythology of year 1938 back in year 1776 of the USA Founding Fathers. But we DO NOW have 1938 Finnegans Wake from James Joyce, we do NOW have University of Toronto's Marshall McLuhan's book War and Peace in the Global Village from year 1968... we do NOW have the airports and the TCP/IP streaming video from across the planet to see it is a global Pale Blue Dot issue.