ISBeings, Identity and Solidarity
The ISBEING is the actual being of humanity.
If you do not have a connection with an ISBeing, you are lost.
People become fanatic in their likes and hates, because that is how they set their own personal boundaries.
Who a I? I am a [name of affiliative ISBing)
But ISBeings are very complex beings.
It is not for nothing that they have inner segregations, ISBeings within ISBeings. The echelons of armies have a different personality than those in government. Descrete ISBeing parts foster different individual traits, different mentalities.
It is only in a segregated split-off schizoid ISBeing, like say, the British Empire, in which far-flung members were plundering natives and were steeped in the extreme US and Them mentality involved in running a brisk slave trade with no mercy or qualms whatsoever, while another part, safely ensconced in Britain, became quite squeamish about this abuse of other human beings and started the great movement of abolition that eventually enveloped the entire ISBeing, which was ultimately willing to spend a great deal of money to compensate the slaveowners just to get rid rid of the slave trade.
But it is the entire ISBeing that does this, and every ISBeing runs the risk of consuming itself as the gentler parts hate the more coercive, stronger, militant parts, and very soon they start to corrode solidarity from within.
So the problem becomes how to maintain solidarity throughout the whole ISBeing when there are different parts of it. Some parts must be militant or combative or martial, otherwise the entire ISBeing will succumb to other ISBeings, indeed, the entire ISBeing of the British Empire is slowly being decimated generation after generation by economic ideas of individual selfishness that would belittle government as much as possible, forgetting that government is a representation of the people, and is a crucial element within the ISBeing. Governments are what directs and coordinates the very body of the ISBeing.
And when within a modernized is being, in which different parts have different roles, the militant part is small because of the constant pressure of anti-militant parts against “fascism” or whatever they call aspects of solidarity to the point of wanting to dismantle the very power that keeps the ISBeing alive, then we get to a point like in the current state of Israel, where the ISBeing itself is unable to defend itself when attacked by a strong enemy fully identified with its ISBeing. in many ways, it is the Muslim hate of Jews enshrined in the the Quran and in the life of Muhammad that makes it possible to sustain the Jewish Israeli ISBeing identity by forcing these people to recognize that they are in fact part of a Jewish or Hebrew ISBeing when they would be more comfortable without this identity since they want to be cosmopolitan. And now come these Muslim marauders and remind them of the ISBeing affiliation.
This has the same effect as the ancient Christian hate of Jews had enshrined in Luther’s The Lies of the Jews, and in the New Testament in John 8 41 where it is said that the Jews are the sons of the devil. This bolstered the ISBeing identified as Jewish by its enemies by creating people who identify with the huge ISBeing sustained by the New Testament who constantly strive against Jewish individuals because they belong to this ISBeing marked for hatred by their scripture, just as it is marked for hatred by the Quran.
So it is ultimately the ISBeing that determines both civilization and its discontents. The ISBeing established US and Them, and thereby also the I and Other.
So the ultimate challenge is to either make sure that your ISBeing is strong enough to defend itself, or that it is large enough to coopt other potential ISBeings thereby turning them from Them to Us.