Right, I mean I agree.

But I think it’s much more likely that unless you’ve found a way to feel peace within yourself, that the dualism (us vs them mentality) will express itself in bitterness and divisiveness. That’s true of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. And the vast majority of progressive activists.

I used to be in those movements, and it’s EXTREMLY tribalistic. Yes they’re motivated by love and care but they still see the world in terms of “oppressor vs oppressed”, “allies vs enemies”, “good vs bad” and their rhetoric is equally divisive. This is what leads to the Left being increasingly fragmented, fighting each other with vitriol over minor disagreements, to the point they will see someone who is 95% in agreement with them as pure evil. See how someone like JK Rowling is portrayed by the Left, as if she is this evil malicious woman who is going “mwahaha let me demonise trans people” when actually she is almost certainly believing she is doing a morally good thing and trying to protect people from harm, even though it’s misguided.

In my opinion someone like JK would be much more likely to be convinced from a place of empathy for her (realising she is an ally in many ways and is not being malicious) rather than having a million people on Twitter call her a TERF and burn her books.

So that’s an example to me of how being in a place of nondualism and not seeing the world in terms of “good and bad, black and white, ally and enemy, my side and your side” etc would actually be more productive than the much more common vitriol and tribalism that (well meaning, loving and good intentioned) people can wield “for a good cause”.