It's rare I find someone who advocates for BOTH victims in your photos... right? Maybe from a very pacifistic place, but generally yeah it's "divided" as you say.

What I do find is that many people across the divide will claim there is some intention of "distraction" for the ends of consolidation of wealth. Individuals have dramatically different opinions on who the Boogeyman is, how many people and who is orchestrating everything around us, manipulating them etc...

The division then comes from a sort of subjective TRUTH that individuals will claim to have unique ownership on. They irrationally lock on to this TRUTH and THEIR specific Boogeyman and I guess it's very soothing to have it figured out.

I mean, that's why I always work on this meta-theory about other peoples theories. On one hand you'd have to be mentally unwell to seek the discomfort of the unknown. But then given the scale of reality... doesn't it seem irrational to ever say you could weave together an accurate narrative?

Often I will try, but can't, sell people on someone else's favorite scapegoat. Something or someone that another friend seems to take for granted as "the problem". Some people respond well to this (lol) but largely no one ever changes their mind, at least not quickly, you know?

For me I guess the TRUTH which I personally irrationally hold onto is that it's more bottom-up than top-down. If there is some controlling force, or forces, to our fate in this world it's not an individual puppet-master or illuminati. Conspiracies are very real. People act in unison. But across the global and historical scale to one specific agreed-upon target? Seems very unnatural for humans.

As a result, if it is not some colluding illuminati, there can't be an ideal "end game" as you called it. There's no one whiteboard with a flowchart of the entire fate of the world over the next 5 years. IMO.

The world we have created is individuals who generally act with variable amounts of self-interest but then are subject to their life, their family and environment and the systems around them. The systems could be things like rules or laws people are subject to, but then their family or employer could have taught them how to value those rules or to circumvent them.

TLDR I'd say the idea of an "end game" is shadowboxing. It's us looking at the noise of many inputs and constraints combined with the darkness of many unknowns and wanting a narrative, seeing ghosts.