We hear the word clique and we understand that it is a specific group of like individuals who have banded together for a purpose. The band or group labels themselves "us" and all others as "them."When you begin to really delve into the training of the mind/brain you will discover that our world of "humans" are instinctually programmed by nature to form groups. It is this protective instinct that causes us to band together as the group provides protection.
Even if we don't intentionally join a group, such as a style and/or dojo in the FA/MA, to find protection that instinct still influences us to join anyway. What we do is seek out a group or groupings that our intuitions say are comfortable, protective, to us and after an initial gathering to see if we and they fit into our ideologies we join.
Even if we join a group for a specific purpose, i.e. lean a FA/MA for defense/protection, etc., the intuition/instinct is still active and after a time we conform to that group and become a member. Now it is "us" and "them" where we see them as a threat on a very deep subconscious level even if on a conscious level we don't. This is natures gift to help us protect ourselves.
What happens in a style, even a fractured style or what I call "factions" we are still groups who see other groups as a possible threat or as I have said already, us vs. them.
When we see the fractured view of all our styles groups we are to understand that to change the way that particular group thinks and acts from the outside is impossible. Until we can change their view of those "outside" the group as now a member of that group, i.e. a them that becomes "us" member, you will be unable to influence change within that grouping.
In Isshinryu we have many factions or groups who have their own distinct beliefs and anyone who refutes those beliefs even if absolutely "factual and correct" will be unable to cause a change in that groups beliefs. This bond of the group is so strong that even when one member "sees" and/or "hears" the truth of it they will instinctually let it go from their mind and revert to the groups way.
The only way to bring about "universal change" in something like this is to achieve a change to all groups where they perceive everyone and every group as a member of a world group where we all see each and every human as a part of that family and thus change perceptions from an us vs. them to everyone and every group as an "Us!"
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