I wonder...

Could the America of the 2000s mobilize for a cause as strongly as we did in the 1960s? Although we undoubtedly have the technology and resources to reach millions in just a few minutes time, I'm quite afraid to but truthfully must say no. Society today lacks the social relationships and the fire of the 60s. Today, everyone lives alone. Neighbors are strangers. The youth, and elderly for that matter, have fallen away from the church. People don't seem to care.

In 1955, following the arrest of Rosa Parks, nearly 400,000 people from the black Alabama community were contacted in a matter of three days from Friday-Sunday. (Lawson and Payne, 128) However, not only were they notified that a bus boycott was going to take place starting that Monday, they all did it.
I ask myself, could that happen today? What would it take to unify so many people? A war in Iraq? Gay rights? A radically liberal president? A nuclear war?

...what?