Knowledge promotes a strong and integrated true unity though more effort. Ignorance promotes a weaker less integrated false "unity" but is easier to do.
Conformity to the truth in reality creates true unity. This requires the most effort to verify the accuracy of knowledge gained and create a solid grounding through understanding reality. Conformity to falsity in reality creates false “unity” through attachment to falsity. Ignorance easily creates unity because there is no conflicting knowledge. Falsity agreed upon and ignorance as a blank false “unity” is a weak foundation for grounding through a lack of understanding reality.
Awareness Levels
Less awareness of reality is less knowledge about reality. That ignorance has less potential of creating conflict with others who are also ignorant. Someone who doesn't know much has a basic low level understanding, which can also be filled with false knowledge accepted as "right", "correct" or "true".
Someone who has more knowledge has more awareness and has a higher level understanding, with more data to filter and notice falsity or contradiction in the false knowledge they may have accepted. To arrive at clear and grounded understandings within ourselves, we need to remove conflicting knowledge, and truly unite within ourselves and with reality as it is.
Gaining knowledge and awareness about aspects of reality allows for more refinement and accuracy of understanding through verifying the conflicting information. Without much awareness or verification of reality, there is little potential for conflict in a state of ignorance.
Blank Page vs. Same Page Understanding
A low level understanding or awareness can be likened to a "blank page" or "blank book" compared to a higher level understanding or awareness. People who are ignorant can more easily "unite" because they are not filed with much knowledge.
People who have knowledge, be it true or false, have more potential conflicting information from each other, therefore uniting with each other on a the "same page" can be difficult since their pages or books can be conflicting with information. Someone with knowledge also can't easily unite with someone who is ignorant and has to learn to be on the "same page", or if they are attached to falsity because it conflicts with more accurate knowledge in reality/truth.
Blank-page "unity" is easy, it's a "unity" through being lesser aware, blank and empty of truth vs. falsity, of right vs. wrong, or correct vs. incorrect. Comparatively, one blank book is the same as another blank book. Knowledge differentials create division. When everything is blindly accepted as valid to avoid conflict, false "unity" occurs.
Truth Divides from Falsity
Truth divides from falsity. Truth rejected or falsity accepted between people, creates disunity. More awareness of reality is knowledge, either positive accurate truth or negative inaccurate falsity, and therefore more points of possible conflict. Shared quality accurate knowledge, i.e. truth, is the path and way to true unity. Learning the truth in reality, including how our consciousness functions, psychology, etc. is much more difficult. It requires time, energy, effort, dedication, persistence and determination. Truth takes time and effort.
Inaccurate knowledge, i.e. falsity, can't create true unity, but can create false "unity" on the commonality of mutually accepting falsity. Falsity needs to be removed for a real, authentic, truly whole, solid and integrated unity to occur.
The real and authentic strength, solidity, integrity, quality and groundedness of unity within ourselves psychologically (thoughts, emotions, actions) and of our perceptions with reality, is based on the quality knowledge of truth and morality we take in and discern. The more ignorant of truth and morality we are, the more holes we have in our foundational comprehension, and the weaker and falser our attempts at "unity" are. This leads to being a falser self, compared to a truer self that is united, integrated and strengthened by the truth of reality. A falser unrealer self is misalignment/disunity with reality/truth vs. truer realer self in alignment/unity with reality/truth.
Ignorance
Some people are either being ignorant of important true aspects of reality that matter to positively evolve ourselves and the condition of the world, or we are in acceptance of false negative knowledge of various kinds (falsity accepted as "truth").
Being ignorant makes us more easily united since we have nothing to be divided by, but this is not real true unity and integrity. Accurate knowledge of reality brings truth. More quality knowledge separates us from the collective ignorance or conformity and attachment to falsity.
Ignorance results in conformity to a programmed conditioned way of living in the system. Knowledge allows divergence from the false conformity. Filling up the blank empty pages with accurate truth makes it harder to unite with others who do not do so and reject the truth, or are attached to falsity.
We struggle with various information, misinfo and disinfo to try to find the truth, getting caught in traps, cul-de-sacs and mind-viruses along the way, getting attached to "feel-good" false self-views and wolrdviews constructing beliefs accepted as "truth".
Negative false knowledge makes true unity impossible. The more false info, disinfo, misinfo that exists, the more potential there is for falsity to spread, the more difficult it is to gain quality knowledge in the confusion of massive amounts of information to discern, and the more difficult it is to unite on that solid grounded foundation of accurate knowledge (truth), instead of the faulty, flimsy, false "unity" from incorrect or useless knowledge.
Truth inherently divides from falsity. The only way to truly unite is for everything to care for, seek, embrace, accept, integrate and live the truth found in the common reality we share (objective reality).
Uniting to be Free
Getting to a state of human existence and living where we are united, free and living in peace, requires more quality knowledge, and is much harder to accomplish, but we can. Engaging in more moral living through voluntary interactions will empower us all in our lives, and take the power away from centralized authoritarian governmental control over our lives. We have the potential to live without rulers or masters (anarchy), if we work towards creating that way of life.
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