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Us (and Them)

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Just as the brain needs failure to grow, it also needs to overcome adversity in order to learn. If there is no obstacle, why progress?

The twist is that throughout history, this need for obstacles has sometimes taken the form of creating enemies.

In many languages, this took the name of “barbarians.”

In ancient times, science was not as developed as it is today, and knowledge about how civilizations were formed and spread across the globe was limited.

While this understanding has grown over the past few hundred years, thousands of years of fear toward the unknown cannot be erased overnight.

We all carry inner fears of the unknown.

Progress doesn’t come from separating Us and Them.

It comes from realizing there has never been a Them in the first place…

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