Thank you for stopping by @indigocean and sorry for the late reply but I've been away for a few days. Yes, I very much agree .. we're insidiously taught to hate and fear one another whilst at the same time being artificially pushed together, you can stand back and see the way they are manipulating these divisions and bringing it to a potential boiling point.
Not long ago it was my people (African-Americans) the white americans were supposed to fear. That's why "white" was created as an idea. Before that there were landowners and those who worked for landowners. But then newly freed African slaves started working with European descendant indentured servants and sharecroppers too effectively, so "white" had to be created to separate the poor and increase the relative
Yes I couldn't agree more and indeed I wrote something similar in one of my posts where I stated:
Whilst I’m fully aware that some people will not understand the point I’m making here, please know that whether white or black, religious or atheist, rich or poor we are all prisoners of a system that demands subservience and increasing control over every facet of our lives. We are all victims of the great game of divide and conquer, it’s just that (as countries) we have been handed different roles. We are pieces on a chessboard, some of us are pawns, some are knights whilst others live like kings; but outside of a human life it’s all transient.
The destruction of indigenous communities and the colonisation of the world is a relatively modern occurrence and it remains fresh within our collective memories. These memories are manipulated in order to obtain an attachment of guilt, but we were all indigenous once. The tribes of Europe were also removed from their lands and their way of life scattered to the four winds, the only difference is that it occurred so long ago that we have forgotten what was stolen, forgotten what it means to be truly free.
Yes, I do see the insanity of such a foreign policy, and many of the same people saying "don't criminalized being a refugee" are also saying "don't bomb them out of their homes, and we'd rather they stay where they are now." It's not so black and white in all minds. There is a great deal of complexity being considered from some mental frameworks.
Yes, I very much agree that there are people whom are able to comprehend the multiple shades of grey at play here .. my problem is that I'm increasingly observing the collective being drawn (manipulated) into polarised positions and my fear is that over time this dynamic is being utilised to create ever greater division and ultimately could very easily give rise to civil unrest, from that perspective we will all be losers. Equally with the European crisis, the huge gulf in culture is also being used to ferment hatred.
There are no easy answers in all this my friend but I do know that I refuse to be drawn into collectivisation & generalisation .. hence my reason for writing this post was to show that by increasingly taking these polarised (black & white) perspectives our society is being led into a blind alley. Indeed the left is feeding the right and the right is feeding the left and if this continues we will all grow hungry :(
Thanks again @indigocean you've raised some great points.