What Can Be Done About Hate

 Human beings are the same things with different experiences that make us mad in different ways.

Tolerate the differences.

All the great thinkers have said that we have several natures, like schizophrenic animals. Freud said each of us has an ego, a super-ego and an id, all of which are at war with one another and produce our various behaviors and mental illnesses. Jung said we had several selves that did the same things. Nietzsche thought we have dual natures -- Apollonian and Dionysian, the first of which is something like our disciplined, reasonable side and the second of which is something like our wild, animal side, brought out by wine and sex.

If we are the same things with different experiences, that might better explain why we dislike each other so much and are willing to hate and violate each other, violate those whom we view as different.

We are told we would be better off and happier if we came together as one, but wouldn't that involve negating everything we've done and been subjected to? As well as ignoring physical differences that also contribute to our allure as well.

I don't think so.

Our experiences make us different. Our perceptions separate us when appearances seem to differentiate us, when we look different from the one who perceives.

This duality breeds hatreds like racism and xenophobia. If we look differently from others, we must therefore be different, and then our behaviors seem to vindicate such nonsense.

We are the same things by nature, evolution and genetics. We are different once we live separate lives hundreds or thousands of miles apart, or in differing, walled-off communities.

If only we could come together ...

No.

The American Revolution, based on Enlightenment philosophers like John Locke and Dave Hume, solved this problem by insisting on equality based on tolerance and freedom. We are forgetting that lesson today, preferring to emphasize our experiential differences like religion and race and our obvious physical differences and differences of place. 

We are all one because that fact of our essential sameness is the truth, not the random happenings of life. We are copies of one another in reality.

It seem the only solution is freedom and equality for all, a simple idea that ignores our physical differences and the vicissitudes of life that experiences and place settle on us to create our different personalities and identities. 

It's worked in the past. It would work again if we adhered to this simple idea.

It's either that or continue to be at each other's throats for all eternity.