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Becoming Aware of How They Divide Us
There are many forces working to divide us in order to disempower us.
We need to stop letting them divide us.
Everywhere we turn there are divisions and separations being exploited, capitalized upon, and heavily marketed. Many of them are completely and utterly artificial, while others are obvious but superficial.
The artificial include religions, sexuality, nationality, generation, and other similar notions.
The superficial include the sexes, skin colors, hair and eye colors, height, weight, and similar.
No matter whether the dividing factor is artificial or superficial, it is still completely unnecessary. It is employed mostly to create conflict and get people thinking about separations.
Take generational divides, for example. Can you have a conversation about Baby Boomers, Generation X, or Millennials without saying something awful, unflattering, or just unkind about one of them? Everyone that makes up any of these generations has far more in common than not. The only difference is when you were born.
Does that make any sense at all as to why it is used to divide people? Every generation has people who are with the times, and who are throwbacks to another time. Every one of them has good and bad people, and progressive and…
