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I dont think its insensitive, but I do think you're missing the forest for the trees a bit with this part
This was sortof poorly communicated on my part because its such a long winded concept but basically my original comment was an acknowledgement that the division was indeed the enemy but more specifically that the ruling class and those in power have consciously and intentionally placed these divisions with deadly accuracy in order to protect the meta interests at play.
For example, libya was a country in Africa mostly useless to america and had no real geopolitical weight in the global arena. When Syria sent suicide bombers to take down a commercial airliner the american government commited to a worldwide obfuscation of this fact because they were collaborating with Syria in military actions against other countries in the Middle East and needed to keep their appearance of impropriety at bay while they were publicly allied. So, at the behest of the american government, libya took credit for the bombings in order to create confusion around the investigation which was very clearly showing no evidence of Libyan involvement and extensive evidence of Syrian involvement. The original reporting of the bombing accused Syria of being the perpetrator, but due to America's pressure campaign the findings were decried as inconclusive.
Decades later, while Syria was committing a genocide and no longer a public ally of the US, libya once again became a subject of the spotlight. Why? Because america was welcoming them into their alliance of course. Libya had "given up their WMD's" (which they never even remotely came close to having) in exchange for being brought into the fold to fight the "evil regimes of the middle east."
Now, one might wonder at this point: what about libya changed in those intervening decades? The leader of their terrorist state was a dictator named qadaffi, and the noble nation joining the coalition was lead by.. the same guy. Objectively nothing about their government or country had changed except the fact that america now saw them useful to their perception management operations.
This is, again, a very poorly explained way of saying that what you percieve as division are actually carefully crafted splinters deliberately used to shatter the ability of anyone to accurately understand and describe the world around them. We are so constantly bombarded with sci-fi level propaganda and unconscious manipulation of narratives about the world around us that almost none of the things that divide people are even real in the first place.
Anti abortion politics was a manufactured astroturfed movement thought up by the highest levels of government and society in order to force a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. The tea party movement was a manufactured astroturfed movement funded by billionaires in order to foment a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. Illegal immigration is a direct result of american foreign policy destabilizing governments around the world and creating refugee crises that are so large no other country could afford to absorb them and the anti immigration panic is a manufactured astroturfed movement designed by the highest levels of conservative power structures to manufacture consent for holocaust style death camps. These are all factually proven right wing psyops that have successfully destabilized the country and created all the division that is so visibly causing our society to collapse.
In all of these scenarios, there are specific actors and groups directly responsible for and consciously in control of the supposed divisions no matter what they may be. Left or right is a burlap sack over your head that you cannot remove but can turn 180 degrees in between waterboardings. Take the sack off and look at who's holding the hose. It's capitalists every time. Doing something that is inherently destructive to society and the world at large specifically with the intent of profiting off the now destabilized workers, state, or country.
This is long enough so I'll try to wrap up. The real solution to divisions in society is by reducing inequality and the way to reduce inequality is by forcibly divesting capitalists from their capital and returning it to the people who produced it. All the divisions, all the wars, all the economic failures come from a single point and their entire game for the past 400 years has been to obfuscate that single point behind an led screen of shiny new things to get mad about instead of the people exploiting all of us for their own gain.
(The reference to libya is an example given in the documentary "hypernomalization" by Adam Curtis if you'd ever like to hear the story unfucked by my frantic desire to get this comment out lol Here's the link if you're interested )
I agree with basically everything you say until you establish the sole culprit of all ills being a socioeconomic philosophy. Everyone's favorite culprit of the ills of society is capitalism. Not that I have any sympathy for it. It's just the flavor of subjugation that was working last century. I've also seen hypernormalization and I enjoyed it very much, but I think Curtis has the same issue you're having. Theocracies, feudalism, centrally planned economies such as those that communism often push for, monarchy and anarchy don't do any better. They all enslave people in their own ways.
The way I see it, the world is run by empires, their vassals and then there are client states and places where there's nothing to steal left. Empires stay dominant by harnessing the power of three things: thought control, warfare and slaves. Always has been like this and it still is. Show me any human society of over 100.000 people where their most underprivileged aren't being horribly abused. You might point to scandinavia, but... Who makes their phones and electronic devices? Who handpicks blueberries for them when it's winter on their hemisphere? Who ends up paying the price for the weapons, the oil and the drugs they sell?
They just managed to sweep their slavery under the rug, just like we comfortably buy our presliced bacon and have a delicious breakfast without ever having to face the death of the animals that were sacrificed for them.
If you think any system fixes what you're describing, i ask you to paint a picture for me and tell me why it will not eventually devolve into the most ruthless members within eventually getting to positions of power (be it within the private sector, the government or a dominant religious institution) and becoming even more corrupt. I don't even need any historic examples of it working. Just what it would look like.
Cause empires, societies and ideologies have life cycles, just like organisms do. Sometimes they can renew themselves and gain new strength after big events or compelling leadership come by, but they all collapse eventually. In the vedas they describe the golden age, silver age bronze age and eventually the kali yuga of societies, where corruption, depravity and distrust become so widespread the people stop believing in anything and no longer care about anything but themselves. In the west we prefer talking about decadence, and it's always the same. Be it with the mongols, the romans, the french, dutch, chinese...
The people on top get so rich it poisons their minds and alienates them from society. The hierarchies become distant from each other, a peasant or slave so far removed from an emperor, they're unable to consider each other human. The creation myth and the promises of a better tomorrow for all becomes evidently a lie and people stop finding meaning in unity.
Cults of abundance and paganism emerge (cryptobros, technocrats, ecoterrorists, utopian marxists, etc). The people that can afford to drench themselves in hedonism (all decadent empires become completely obsessed with food, sex, drugs, sports and entertainment) while the underprivileged do the shit work and die in wars. Most people stop having kids. The blatant hypocrisy makes people claim for a hero and populism emerges. Unrest comes. Revolutions start bubbling and get crushed by the forces that are kept well trained and fed by the corrupt leadership, until eventually, either some other emergent and younger empire sweeps in or a revolution becomes successful.
Doesn't really matter which of those happens. The result is the same. The poor get it the worse, the rich flee or break deals and only end up inconvenienced and humiliated but not dead, and people in between either go to other parts of the world because "fuck this place" or become slaves to the new regime, which will do the same thing all over again.
This is no different than a rotten tree falling apart and if you think killing every last capitalist, intel agent and rich person will make any difference, I'd say you're not looking at the big picture.
The problem with polarization isn't that you the powerful remain in power and keep oppressing the poor. That part's inevitable. The problem is they show weakness to foreign enemies who start sharpening their teeth. Then come the proxy wars and if a direct confrontation can be avoided, whoever loses must forever pay tribute to the victor... until it happens to them.
Nature is unfair, life is unfair and politics and societies are extremely unfair and cruel. Doesn't matter what systems or leaders you choose. Take your pick. Nations either run on warfare, slaves and propaganda, or are the victims of those that do.