It is often the grotesque traits in which we lock others through a reaction that we generalize (it is always so…) that locks the doors of the suffering dungeons.
We lock ourselves in such towers, not allowing the light bulb, the potential, the wisdom of reality into our understanding of the other.
©FJ September 2022
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I think you describe the practical application of « willful blindness ». A euphemism for prejudice.
It is a common condition.
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