There may be particular reasons, from nature as to our traits or pension to do things a certain way, why we tend to go to either one extreme or another with very few "gray areas" in life. Our brain functions and Survival Instincts.
We process stimuli through our senses. Our brains process that information by first organizing it, then labeling it and finally quantifying it in our world. Our brains tend to reduce everything into the fewest components as possible. Our brains through cognitive processes put all abstract concepts into dyads - "dualistic terms." Our brains tend to classify the stimuli/data into such things as "up vs. down; in vs. out; hard vs. soft; anger vs. love; fear vs. fearlessness and even in our development of computer technology, i.e. 1's and 0's.
It becomes more apparent as I study that our tendency to place humans into a "Us vs. Them" mentality is actually a part of nature's big plan to help us survive. We survive by gathering like-minded humans into groups, clans, tribes and then through mutual agreement set patterns, rhythms and roles that foster group strength for survival. It is no wonder the world of Okinawan Karate-jutsu-do is in such fragmented groupings, it is human and it is natural for us to go this route.
We seem to have a binary "on-off" mechanism in the brain so we place things in one category or the other, us vs. them. One Isshinryu group has their belief system thus they form a clan, tribe or association. The other Isshinryu group has their particular belief system and thus form a "other" clan, tribe or association. Then the overall belief system and the brain lock up into that particular belief exclusive to all others, i.e. it is Us vs. Them - dualistic terms, labeling, beliefs.
Even if the commonality of the systems meet in the middle one clan vs. the other tend, as shown in other posts, to stick to their belief system regardless thus resist change and acceptance of the "others."
Hmmmm, must contemplate this more.
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