Unity Makes Strength: What Does That Actually Mean?
Why we all agree, yet live divided?
Everyone agrees that unity makes strength, yet our world remains divided. What if we’ve never truly understood what it means in practice? Let’s break down unity, strength, and division.
Unity Makes Strength. Who could argue with that?
Seriously – try finding someone willing to publicly defend the opposite: “Actually, I think division is preferable.”
So if we all agree that unity makes strength, why does our world look like… well, this?
Maybe because nobody really understands what it means? Especially in practice.
What Is Unity?
Unity isn’t uniformity. It’s not everyone thinking the same thoughts or marching in lockstep. Real unity is like a symphony – different instruments, different notes, but all contributing to something greater than any could create alone. It’s the trillions of cells in your body, each unique, each essential, all working together so seamlessly you don’t even notice. It’s when individuals decide to act as one.
What Is Strength?
Not the kind that dominates or conquers. The strength that emerges from unity is generative – it creates, builds, heals. It’s the strength of a forest where every tree supports the ecosystem. The strength of a community where individual talents combine to solve what no one could solve alone. It’s the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
What Is Division?
Just look around 😉
More seriously, it’s the artificial boundaries we’ve created:
- Countries with different rules, currencies, and competing interests
- Religions claiming exclusive truth, and tension based on beliefs
- Political parties treating governance like a zero-sum game
- Corporations working behind closed doors, needing to compete with other brands for survival
Sport teams are more complex – and interesting. With a sane spirit, it’s a good mix of fake division within real unity. Unity within teams, playful competition between them, all serving the greater unity of the sport itself. But when division takes over unity, the competition becomes toxic… and we get hooliganism.
But I’ve No Power to Change That!
That’s exactly why we need unity. But if nobody dares to be the first person on the empty dance floor… well, the party never get started!
A single cell can’t transform the body, but when cells work together, they can heal anything. When they’re divided and fighting each other, that’s when disease takes hold.
What if you could be part of the generation that chose unity over division? How would you feel being an active component of the biggest voluntary r·evolution in human history? One of the first to set the dance floor on fire!