Tower of Babel

Many of us have heard many different stories with pieces resembling the story of the tower of babel. Many dismiss it as a simple legend however I believe that the story was kept because it has a good lesson to learn. (The tower of Babel occured after the great flood. )

Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar [b] and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

So, challenging. The idea that we as humans are capable of working together is a warming idea, but the idea that God didn't want us to work together. . . is harder to swallow. Granted the intent of the tower was prideful. . . showing God that we something. Any thoughts?