The recurring theme hinges around creating a division -- an artificial one, apparently -- between the zone we conceive of as ourselves, and that we conceive of us Another. By insisting on this separation we can then define anything outside the boundary as Wrong, and we can justify being ignorant of it because it isn't Us.

Why we do this? Harder question. Lizard brain domination impulses? Terror of being wrong? Old trauma misinforming new moments? Borrowed insanity from others? All of these to some degree, I guess. Maybe the real core element is summed up as fear. Without fear, greed tends to settle down. Without fear, one negages with confidence and is willing to sahre differing viewpoints and take on new beliefs or explore them without shaking in one's boots because they might be different.

How to overcome fear? Educational exploration, enhancement of self-esteem, and gradually removing any actual causes for fear (murderous impulses and those who promote them.)

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