> Your entirely correct about US vs Them ... It is more appropriately called by its wartime use, divide and conquer, if you have no working communications, no

> Your entirely correct about US vs Them ... It is more appropriately called by its wartime use, divide and conquer, if you have no working communications, no organization or counteraction can occur. The ostrich gets eaten while its head is buried in the sand. Frogs get boiled when they don't notice the temperature going up. > Its willful ignorance Its more than that, its willful blindness to the consequences of their actions. The dynamics are common in transitional stages from the "banality of evil" which becomes the "radical evil". Its not surprising that Complacency is sloth. System's have a way of enabling great acts of evil by chopping up the objectionable parts. Quite a large number of people are nihilistic, and believe at some core level that if they didn't know they were doing something wrong then they aren't responsible for their actions. They then make it a point to make it so they never know they are doing wrong. As for the divisiveness, it can be summed up as "Critical Theory", and most are able to figure out where and what groups are responsible for that with a little research. Tolstoy was wrong in his live and let live in some respects. Destructive behaviors beget increasingly more destructive behaviors unless stopped, embracing falsehoods as truth is one of the most destructive behaviors out there, and being unable to communicate or counteract them guarantees only one outcome for the people in that sphere of influence.