We are one of them, no matter who the them might be.

Subject: We are one of them, no matter who the them might be.

Given that the world is in a mess which means the people who live on the planet are in a mess, what is the cause of the mess.
Is it a avarice, greed, intolerance is it jealousy, pride, hatred, self absorption, narcissism. These are just a few of the human traits which make us complex, competitive, self centred human beings continually stripped down for a fight.
Given the complexity of our lives from birth to death, given the associations we contrive to join and become a part of to support us through the trials and tribulations, including the religious and tribal props and the cultural norms we pick up by osmosis, is it any wonder we are in a mess both collectively and as individuals.
If we were able to mentally disconnect for a while and focus on who we are without the props and the pseudo identity, if we could find the root of our being, perhaps the associative dilemma we carry around as our identity would fall away and reveal something simpler more at home in our own skin, less associated with the the 'impulse control disorder' which we all suffer from.
Leaving the tribe, leaving the association of values we have cherished since we began to think and started to evaluate everything outside our bodies fundamental  functions takes a strong person or at least a strong value system on which to fasten ones star to. 

The religious person will say, yes that's what we do, we internalise the good humanitarian aspects of our religion as a life style taken from a description published in a book of many diktats.  The problem of religion is its competitive nature, setting one intolerance against another, each declaring "it is the authentic voice".

Humanities problem is its inability to define its self in terms which all men and women can understand and go along with. The competing claims are the composite group think which is different in each group or culture. 

If we are to rewrite the script we imbibed through our tribe, a script to evaluate our lives and could  tear up the prejudice to which we are all prone to, perhaps the slimmed down individual to arise from the exercise would be better able to get along with others, be more cosmopolitan simply by reminding oneself that we are one of them no matter who the them might be.