How about [spoiler]We are, evolutionary speaking, still as much instinctive and primal urge animals as any other on the planet, but the fact we developed opposable thumbs and high-level introspection forced that part of our monkey brains to develop at a different pace than others. Whilst we may be intellectually advanced compared to other animals, we still base most of our decisions on the unconscious bias, instinct and threat awareness that kept us alive for the past few million years, we just developed ‘reasoning’ to superficially deny that part of us our introspection revealed that we didn’t like, and based our entire conscious mental existence on top of that denial. There is no ‘conspiracy’ of abuse and conflict, that is just what happens when you give a group of monkeys knowledge of maths in one hand and some big sticks in the other - they use the maths to determine where to hit each other so it hurts the most. [quote] This is about control v truth. This is about psychopath v empath. This is about darkness v light.[/quote] This demonstrates the problem quite nicely. You want people to wake up from the division, but then present the situation as another division just along the lines you favour rather than the ones ‘they’ do. People operate on fear, and hunger, and power, and lust, and anger, and simple rules, and easy ‘us vs them’ explanations. In the modern world that manifests itself not as a conspiracy to keep people compliant and caged, but as a society of monkey brains presented with things they’re incapable of making sense of, and then reacting instinctively. When someone is physically attacking you, or you eat something rotten, your monkey brain knows what to do to keep you safe. When you’re scrolling TikTok and realise you’ve become addicted, your monkey brain knows there’s something wrong, but it doesn’t know what to do about it. These kinds of things compound onto one another both at the individual level where our intellectual brains mould them into narratives around control and decay (in order to give ourselves power over the situation), and the societal level where it spills out into all sorts of issues around ‘public good’ that we’re currently experiencing. But not only are we currently experiencing these problems, we’ve always experienced them. That is the flaw in our development of high-level self awareness and consciousness, the fact that our monkey brains didn’t really know how to adapt, and to this day still hasn’t been able to adapt fully. That’s why people fight over small differences and go to war for resources that could feed everyone if shared equally, and why people choose to abuse others or not stop abuse happening. That’s the monkey brain reacting to a world it doesn’t (and arguably can’t) understand.[/spoiler]