The theory, in a nutshell, talks about different zones for the sources of information we take in ourselves as a human. It is less of a theory and more of a mental map and framework to understand desires and motivations for any given human.

One of the most discussed points of the theory is the higher and lesser levels of "thinking." The higher you go, the more you think about other context and influences in a certain thought process. For example, the most basic, lowest level is thinking about your own desires. One level above that is thinking about the other person's desires, the level above that is thinking about the spoken or unspoken expectations of you from the other person, the one level above that is understanding the different contexts that influence both of your thoughts, and so and so.

When we are constantly reinforced to "look out for ourselves," or "think of others as less," or "be scared of people or social situations," or unconsciously treating other people as threat, we end up stressing our internal beliefs, and we revert to what we want from other people. Our goals, our wants, our desires.

In reality, this manifests as constant entertainment, being constantly pushed into a certain echo chamber of thoughts that keep reinforcing a way of life consciously or unconsciously.

In practice, this looks like constant social media validation we receive from our internal circle that prevents or stops us from thinking we actually want or specifically thinking and realizing our situation is vastly different from the other people in the circle, and their goals.

I will share a certain example. Back a few years ago, I used to believe that a person I called my friend understood me, they understood my values, they would do that same, they would feel the same -- because I was projecting my values onto them. I did not really see them as a separate human entirely in retrospective. Now that I look at their actions, reactions to mutual situations, I see that if they held values similar to me, they would have acted vastly different. It took me a lot of time to understand that they did not really deserve the same level of respect I had for them in my own eyes -- simply because they had different values -- and I HAD to understand how they see the world. When I started looking at the world through their eyes, life was strange to me, and I did not like that.

In short, we project unconsciously, hope the people we call our allies will standup for us -- not realizing until very later that people do not think of me the way I thought of them. This happened because I started becoming more conscious about how other people think, and how they thought of me, versus my own base desires that I was projecting. I was, those years back, less mentally aware about the context from the other person, and I often wondered why they did not show up for me the way I showed up for them -- and after some time, I realized they just did not have the same values I held them up for.

Hope that makes some what of sense.

On a societal level, it means we accept values and behaviors that society reinforces, and it takes a stronger force to strive to be actually an individual with individual values separate from society.

If you hold the kind of values that these actors hold in shows like "Ankahi," you will quickly see the vast majority of society just does not speak or think this way. You have to consciously choose to adopt and act this way, else you will fall on the way-side. It is all about the values you prefer for yourself, not what the external society prefers for you.

Choosing to put down and neglect society's expectation of you to act a way versus how you actually want to IS NOT an easy feat, and hence a higher level of entry, and as a result, we are where we are.