“Living in their pools they soon forget about the sea...”
Ideally, we should all be connected to one another because we are all human, but we are still very disconnected. We form groups by othering, and those groups form cultures. The culture to which we belong to, or identify with, is the culture we are most familiar with because it is the one in which we live. Many of us find it irrelevant or unimportant to learn about other cultures, unless it involves trying fancy cuisine at a high-rated restaurant. We forget about the sea and live in our own pools. This disassociation allows us to dehumanize others on various levels and disparage their culture. When we label other people and their ideas as savage, we create frontiers of us and them. When we approach a frontier, it is never because of our understanding or interest in others, it is self-interest; to expands ourselves, to gain followers, to increase control. The gap between pools and the sea is never closed, the borders are just reshaped.