Social Cohesion
2014 Social Cohesion. We are talking about the use of force as if it were a natural thing. We are talking about punishment, repercussions, imprisonment, retaliation, revenge as if these are humane actions and acceptable for the greater good. We like to fly Business Class and enjoy special privileges and too often become arrogant about it as if we want to be special and insist on deserving special treatment. Flying First Class often increases this gap of arrogance which causes a wedge between people. Airline upgrades become human upgrades separating us and we don’t seem to know, to care or to realize what it can mean. We believe we have earned it whilst others do not. But who are these other people? ' Look at all the people, where do they all belong?' sang the Beatles 50 years ago. We see Presidents reside in heavily guarded palaces, so that these palaces have become prisons as the inhabitants seek to be protected from an angry mob outside that firstly had to be...