And if you have expectations of purely human level, one could also say that every human will let you down in one way or another. Every human has severe limitations, including this human, on the human level, of course you have limitations. And so if you only look at the human, you live in a very impoverished reality and a reality that is bound to manifest continuously conflict, that is ultimately not necessary, but it arises because you do not recognize your oneness with the others, the so-called other. Not only do you not recognize your oneness with the other, when you are here as an egoic entity, you have an unconscious need to emphasize the otherness of others, you want them to be other because the more other they are, the more you are strengthened in your fictitious sense of conceptual identity. And this works even more powerfully on a collective level. It works on a personal level too. People love to have their enemies, they love to argue, and because when you can be right or you're struggling to be right in an argument, you feel your identities are becoming inflated, especially as you want to be right. This is how it is. Or if you get angry, anger can be a wonderful ego inflation. And so you can be so angry that everybody is wrong and you are the only one who is right. And it feels addictive. To the ego it feels like there used to be this movie. TV series, the incredible Hulk. A human who when this human got angry, he would become huge with gigantic muscles and he would go over and people loved watching that and identify with that ego inflation. So the ego loves its enemies, it actually seeks out, it needs the other, it defines its identity through the other who is different from, on a personal level, on a collective level it's very dangerous, it's even more insane than on a personal level. The need for enemies, you find it, enemies, they need to make other groups into enemies, other political parties, the other, oh he is such and such, I'm not mentioning any names.

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