E pluribus unum means “out of many, one,” and it’s the motto of the United States. You’ve probably seen it on coins and bills, and since Latin is a dead language you might have thought it meant something like “spend this quick, before inflation.”
“Out of many, one,” is actually a pretty good idea when you think of it. A family that is united in love and purpose is much more powerful than a squabbling, divorced, get-the-children-on-alternate-weekends, restraining-ordered bunch of individuals at war with one another.
“Out of many, one,” is such a powerful force, that one of the oldest strategies in warfare is to “divide and rule” one’s enemies, weaken them, get them fighting amongst themselves. The British, for example, during their colonial era, got the Muslims fighting the Hindus to “Divide and Rule” them and make them less effective at resisting the British, an animosity that once lit, can flare up even today.
The United States was once united by a European culture, a common religion, etc., and became one of the most powerful nations on Earth. It even survived a Civil War that killed 2 percent of the population – a percentage that if applied to today’s population would mean the deaths of six million people! Even though its population was made up of immigrants, its Constitution and Bill of Rights unified its citizens to a common purpose regardless of religion, culture or economic standing. And today, in spite of its many detractors, it is still a magnet for people fleeing terror, injustice and economic collapse.
However, the United States have become less united and seem to be heading toward separation if not outright divorce. But that didn’t just happen, it was caused.
We’ve had glimpses of who might be employing the old “divide and rule” idea. Russia, for example, is ruled by a former KGB agent and there is evidence that he is sowing discord among Americans. The strategy is very simple: Find the racial, religious, political, economic and cultural differences – any significant divide among individuals or groups of people – and widen it, heat it up and then strike a match.
It is not the issues that divide us, it is a third party, an individual or a group, secretly hard at work to inflame our differences wherever they exist.
And we are stupidly falling for it, blaming each other, blaming the issues, dwelling on grudges and the injustices that arise in such a hostile environment. But it is not the Republicans, the Democrats, the Christians, the liberals or conservatives, the Muslims, the” fat cats” the socialists, the Blacks,or the Whites at fault, it is the hidden third parties fanning the fires of intolerance and bigotry that lie somewhere within each of us, so that we find a target instead of a perpetrator.
There is another motto which has been at the heart of every great civilization that fell, and which applies in this time and in this place. It is: “United we stand, divided we fall.”
There is a remedy to this creation of division and conflict, the exact steps of which are defined in something Scientologists call “The Third-Party Law.” Check out this short video online.
