The Great Unlearning — How Humanity Was Divided to Be Ruled, and How It Can Heal
By Abraham Jesus Mohamad | Investigative Journalist | Red Blood Journal | October 2025
Introduction: The Division Strategy That Backfired
For centuries, the art of ruling has not relied on brute force alone — it has relied on division. Divide the people, and they will police themselves. Make them argue over politics, religion, gender, or even sports teams, and they will never unite long enough to question who benefits from their division.
The COVID-19 pandemic was the modern culmination of this strategy. A biological crisis became a social one — the vaccine debate, the lockdowns, and the endless political blame game fractured families and friendships. Yet in the aftermath of that chaos, something unexpected began to stir: disillusionment.
Many people, having lost faith in governments, media, and even science, began searching for something more enduring — a return to faith, morality, and meaning. Ironically, the same event designed to divide may have sown the seeds of humanity’s awakening.
The Hidden Psychology of Division
Humans have been conditioned from birth to “take sides.” It starts innocently — red team or blue team, Democrat or Republican, believer or skeptic. These choices seem harmless, but they form the architecture of psychological control. The more sides we take, the less we see the whole picture.
This is not an accident.
Propaganda, advertising, and even modern education systems subtly shape human identity through opposition — you are what you’re not. It’s a simple but powerful formula: divide, label, and categorize. Once labeled, humans defend their categories with emotional loyalty stronger than logic. That’s how good people become blind to truth — and how systems of power remain untouched.
Religion: The First Division
Before there were nations, there were gods — and gods became boundaries. Every major religion claims to worship the same Creator, the same Source of Light, but names and rituals became walls. Each creed proclaimed itself right, implying others must be wrong. Thus began the spiritual fragmentation of humanity.
But imagine this:
If all faiths stemmed from the same divine origin, then division among them is not holy — it’s engineered. Whether by kings, clerics, or conquerors, religion became the first political weapon. To rule men, you must rule their belief in the invisible. Unite them in separate categories, and they will never unite in truth.
Modern Extensions of the Ancient Game
In today’s world, religion is no longer the only dividing tool — it’s just one instrument in a full orchestra of control:
Politics: Left versus Right, Red versus Blue. Two wings of the same bird, flapping in opposite directions but keeping the system airborne.
Race and Gender: Identities once rooted in biology or culture now weaponized into endless battles for recognition and supremacy.
Health and Science: The COVID crisis turned medicine into ideology — masks, mandates, and vaccines became badges of loyalty.
Technology: Algorithms now amplify division automatically. Every “like,” “share,” and “retweet” feeds the machine that thrives on outrage.
What all these share is simple: they keep people emotionally exhausted and perpetually opposed. The result? A society easy to control but impossible to heal.
The Awakening: When the Strategy Backfires
Yet something profound has begun. The very overload of division — political chaos, media fatigue, and moral confusion — has pushed people toward introspection. Many are realizing that the enemy is not each other, but the system that benefits from their separation.
This awakening transcends politics and religion. It is a quiet recognition that truth cannot belong to one camp, one ideology, or one scripture.
Truth is universal — and when humans stop taking sides, they start to see it.
The Path Forward: Beyond Sides, Toward Synthesis
To break free from the architecture of division, humanity must learn a radical new skill: integration.
Stop choosing sides. Every ideology has wisdom and poison. Take what is good; discard what divides.
Listen beyond your tribe. The voice you dismiss may hold the piece you’re missing.
Reclaim individuality. A free mind belongs to no label.
Rebuild the moral core. Without shared values, no amount of “tolerance” will unite humanity.
It is not about abandoning faiths or ideologies — it’s about transcending them.
By merging the best of all beliefs and rejecting the manipulative elements, humanity could ignite what history has long suppressed — collective consciousness.
Conclusion: The Last Great Battle Is Within
The oldest tactic of control has always been the same: keep them divided. But the antidote is equally ancient — remember who we are.
Every religion, every philosophy, every moral code whispers the same truth: humanity is one family under one Source. If we finally learn to see that, the rulers who thrive on division will have no one left to rule.
Perhaps, then, the chaos of our time is not the end of civilization — but its awakening.