XVII.

We treat each other as ourselves, but never in the Christian sense. We try to dominate even our fellow humans' inner wasteland by inserted ourselves into their motivations, drives and desires. "What would I do if..."; but you're not. In fact, we try to convince ourselves that we are actually enforcing humanism and mutual understanding by "putting ourselves in the others' place"; but the motivations has at some point been reversed. We don't want to see the world through the eyes of the other...we want to poke his eyes out and tell him what to see. When we try to explain behaviour, we do so only to dominate - never to understand. Is not even the phrase "In his place..." an attempt to make my ego the single determining factor in the intersubjective world? There is no place in his place for him and me to peacefully co-exist simultaneously. Life is a warzone and as in any warzone, espionage is crucial.