RSSGovernments, Religions, Races, Unions, Elites, Systems, Groups, Organizations, Collective will, Mankind, and so forth, are all lies (gross and crude distortions of reality). Those ideas are all lies, illusions.
In Reality, there are individual people. No matter how or where raised, no matter the intentions or similarity of intentions of numerous individuals, the group does not actually exist. Each person turns out unique. The differences between one person and another can be great or small, but there are always differences.
A key factor in those differences (THE key factor?) is how much distortion each person has internalized about the outside world. That is, to what degree has a person learned (or been taught) to lie, to distort the nature of what is obviously visible in daily life? The ‘why’ offered for that distortion is much, much less important than the degree to which that person is lying to themselves. That ‘why’ is itself a lie. Those distortions are first and foremost lies to oneself, and naturally then, to the rest of the world.
If you can’t stop lying to yourself, how can you expect to understand what’s going on ‘out there’?
https://lyingsweetly.blogspot.com/2017/05/lying-sweetly-i-am-going-to-tell-you_3.html
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The article is very good and most of the comments are superb. However, virtually all of the commenters use concepts that (although we might think we know what is meant) are actually distractions, discussing things that do not exist (see my comment above). The other commenters are focusing on these illusory ideas and want you to focus on them too, or on anything other than yourself, as well. That may not be a conscious intention, but it is the direct result of discussing such things.
There is only one problem with what you say:
If you lie to yourself and others lie to themselves, and we know everyone does, then what is this “group” you refer to? Isn’t that an illusion too?