Can a people be of two minds?

 

First you have to think about what is - a people - .


It could be one person, and maybe in an ideal sense,

a person would be of one mind.  But then if you have

two people, most likely you have two minds, and roughly

speaking two minds can integrate pretty effectively, but

there are always issues and difficulties, but sometimes things

work out.  And then you have 3, or 4 or 90 or 10,000 or

however you can imagine it.  ( Imagine is not necessarily

the best word for thinking about something like this )


Then it appears that the question becomes more of , can

many minds, perceive things in co-operative and beneficial

ways, and the conclusion has to be, yes, of course, because

we have tons of information on this, that say people can

be creative and harmonious and experience an awful lot

of good feelings when working toward common goals,

and reasonable objectives.  


So now, to the point, what is the point?  Well, you have to

take into consideration, that although this behavior is persistent

and  pretty common, we also have to admit there is sufficient

examples where it does not work that way, and you get this

notion, of what can be viewed as one people, but they don't

seem to be of - what we call - the same mind.   And all too

frequently, when we encounter these situations, the

outcomes are sometimes - unfortunate.


But certainly looking through history and the many ways

this notion of how people can be configured,  tremendous amount

of thought and energy and effort has been devoted to this

issue, and because all the situations are unique, then

most of the " conclusions " are focused on that particular

situation, but the nice thing is, in general that, solutions

have been found and some of them have been 

superlative.  


So today we clearly need some of this thinking, because

of course, as always, we are in a unique situation.  

We need it on the individual level.  We need it

it small groups and we need it larger groups.  

On the medicine scale of things, it would

tend towards the " strong " end. 

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