One of the most serious aspects of life today is the widening gap between talk and action. It has got so bad that when people hear a piece of high-flown rhetoric nowadays they automatically assume that the exact opposite is the truth.
I want to call attention to a specific example of rhetoric ignored by action which has particularly serious implications for us in the Caribbean. First I will give the world-wide context and then narrow it down to the Caribbean.
There is a tremendous amount of rhetoric about how modern communications are bringing people closer and closer together and how the world is fast becoming a global village in which one day quite soon we will all be brothers living as one. This is
