It's my thinking that we became fractured, as a society, when cable removed us from the common viewing experiences. We had many things as unifiers and felt that we had a more-or-less common purposes for existence. That blanky unwove when the Ted Turner gave us 24 hour news and the society became busier. Ten minute segments worked well on work breaks and "keeping up." That also was going to get competition and foreseeably polarize us. These things have become so.
They are being exacerbated by such Guru's, grifters of any so called religion that preys on greed, who do as this video describes. This is why Taoists become Monks, accepting food and drink as their donations, and speak about liberation from human constructs. Money is such a construct.
For those who might think that I'm trying to sell a new idea from an old one, attaching a NN to Zen Taoism, note that I make no mention of a book for sale. It is just a simple idea which occured to me and, I think, would have many societal benefits for healing and reverence for nature. All nature, for it is all one thing. Everything in it is equal to everything else. All things have various capacity for amusing our animating NN through its eternal incarnations but nothing has superiority over something else. Merely affect.
I have a legal Ordination but only imaginary robes as I do not need to beg. My study has been in solitude and, being a story teller, something I offer to solve many issues which are actually causing death. Consider it free of charge☯