Although the human mind can make billions of connections it appears from research that for the most part, our emotional responses are laid down by the time we are three and many of our attitudes are completed by the time we are ten. Attitudes that are very difficult to break down if we come to disagree with them later in life but they can dictate exactly how we live our lives and why we become the people we become.
It should not be a surprise to anyone when so much is decided when we have barely begun to understand what life is let alone how society works, that we grow up with an idea of borders and barriers between us and other people and little understanding of how we are all the same and the differences we think mean everything, mean very little. The differences chosen for us on how we lead our lives to fit into the creations of humanity when humanity is ruled by the creations of the universe.
I don’t know how to educate people so they grow up to have expansive, curious and open minds. Perhaps I don’t know because I see that isn’t what most States want. No matter their political colouration what States want are citizens, not human beings. States thrive on our idea of borders, they would die in the face of any idea of wholeness or oneness.