The Benefits of Reflexivity

The key benefit of understanding self and other is that you are valuable as an individual, but you're even more valuable as part of a collective. And I think that my experience as a child of being part of a community and a community that is minded to encourage you and help you is something that we've lost in our societies. So reflexivity in and of itself is, in the Eastern tradition, would be regarded as awareness. But if it's garbage in garbage out, then people who are reflexive will just become a more self-aware of the fact that they're garbage... It won't actually take away the garbage.