Why does this happen? What causes us to destroy one another? Perhaps it’s because we’ve been taught that there can only be one “right” answer. This answer then shapes all of our questions.
The mindset of conformity and correctness stems from the assumption that there’s one thing we all should strive for and accept as right. Anything else is abnormal, a mistake, or incorrect. We’ve been taught that being wrong is never right, so when our world is being threatened we hold on tight. We defend our sky because it’s the only one we know -it’s kept us safe. But when we fight for our world we damage others’ in the process.
In order to keep our world intact we end up undermining and invalidating the worlds of those who oppose us. Instead of allowing for a difference of opinion, we compare our world’s and challenge one another until there’s a winner. If we could truly place ourselves in the world’s of others, we might just find that we can understand where they’re coming from and respect their perspective.