Our minds are subjected to a system of thought which taps into a basic survival feature of the brain, such as the critical faculty, and uses its features to divide the self. How can we prove to ourselves that this is the case? The implications of not knowing what compels us to act in certain ways are, that everything we do is merely done and striven for without true free will. By the very comparison with others, our motivations are merely done out of competition, as we have been conditioned to do since elementary school.
The critical faculty deals with questions like do I like or dislike something. Do I not eat it and drop it, or is it nice and I carry on? As infants, we are born with repulsion and attraction to food and things and our minds naturally gravitate towards favorable or tasty outcomes. When we start primary school, this whole two-ism turns into a doctrine.
People are liked or disliked. The effect of wrongful acts towards the collective is called punishment. Blockages in society are solved by conflict and opposition. Sport in school is competition. Grades in class are the individual, measuring him/herself against the class results, etc. etc. This mode perpetuates, invokes, and encourages perpetual comparison
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