Detachment Is Always A Bad Thing?
Detachment is no more an endeavour of consciousness than attachment is. Being attached to things isn't an act of volition; we don't look to manage other things and situations because they present themselves in our lives; we look to control them because we can't do otherwise.
In other words, one man is also perfectly content with a circumstance which may drive another man mad; one man may find peace with an individual who may irritate or annoy others. Being at peace with circumstances and others isn't a decision we make; either we are compatible, or we're not.
Leeching Onto Things
The mistake I believe we make is conflating psychological attachment with emotional attachment. Even though I feel emotional attachment is also beneficial (For instance, falling in love might not be merely a pleasurable experience but, also, a helpful one.), I don't believe psychological attachment is healthy. For me, attachment, in this sense, is mental entanglement.
The distinction is drawn between the capacity for sympathy, the ability to share within the affective states of others, which is essential to collectivisation, and a conflation of one's mental constitution with that of another's.
Bringing Unity In Times Of Dismay
Though the heart is the mechanism that brings us together as a collective, the mind is the very thing that separates us; to know is to divide; it's to judge; it's the quantitative process that creates a plurality of the world. However, to feel is to connect one sentient being to another.
As the individual attributes to himself objective value, he consequently creates a set of values that are associated with one another, by comparison, a set which is comprised of greater and lesser values in relation to the self. This evaluation of the self is the ego; the more he esteems himself, the larger is his ego.
Value Yourself More
The problem with being egocentric is it inhibits a man's capability to feel; rather than being sensitive to the circumstances of others, he judges everybody and everything in relation to himself; the value of things even though relative to the self, are values that are objectified by the individual's ego.
It is the failure to be sensitive to the circumstances of others that blinds the individual to the external world, and it's his own bias that creates divisiveness and contention.
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