Our thoughts are a product of our perspective, which is formed on the basis of our experience, our inner reality. To live that reality is an incredibly unique individual journey, that truly nobody else in the world can quite replicate. Well, not unless they were sharing room and board in your body with your inner consciousness.
Sometimes though, we forget that not everybody's experience of it is the same. Maybe we find it more difficult to understand that, since the cold, material world based on fact and rationality, makes us side-step the truth of someone's experience and try to morph it so it becomes the same as ours. Suddenly there's a loss of authenticity of experience, since their experience has been moulded to ours (or vice versa).
Each experience is one of a kind. When you transcend the individual experience you enter the realm of the collective consciousness we share through which we have manifested an external reality . The problem occurs when one person believes that they hold the scepter that decides that a certain perspective (the one that they support) should dominate not just the manifest reality but also the unmanifest-that which resides in the secret crevices of our soul. They are also wary of how while the physical outer world is shared, the inner world is an arena that holds the space for a personal fortress for our relationship within ourselves.
Whether we'd like to admit it to ourselves, most of us, to a relative degree, try to subconsciously manipulate others into sharing the same perspective or vision of reality as us. We try to impose our belief systems and mechanisms on them, believing that because we were taught that it was this way, and the subconscious has decided to hold on to that pattern, we will superimpose our values about how the world should be (because we are right and our truth is the only sole truth) on their external reality. This, we believe, may actually result in their experience being literally the same as ours.
However, a human beings secret internal world is stashed away so deep inside, that if they decide upon, they can make it so that you will never be let in. For some, they manage to sustain this even at the risk of mental/physical/emotional torture (a more extreme example, but sadly not an outlandish one). That's where that line 'You can take take away all I have but you can never take away my dignity' comes from. Only a person that has some semblance of an established sense of self, maintaining a relationship of authenticity with it, better heard of as 'being true to yourself' generally feels cause for dignity.
People fear what they can't understand. This initiates a power struggle, that seeks to obliterate the others freedom of choice. This is because because to the one who lives in fear, it means that their reality would continue to be different, and it might bring about an even more varied experience for the collective, which would mean that nobody would have more control than anybody else.
What a person doesn't understand, from their outlook, cannot be trusted. If people don't want to look within themselves, to understand themselves, they won't understand the connection that binds us all, despite the rich tapestry of the people's personal, hidden space. There is no sense of trust, not even in the way of trusting themselves. People who seek to gain control are driven crazy by this (this is what novels like Orville's 1984 are about) so they go to further and further measures to ensure that the person loses their connection to themselves- their inner creator- the essence of them where all thought and feeling come from- where imagination lives. Kill a persons imagination and poof- their connection to who they really are disappears.
The proclivity for this to occur is not just true in it's incurrence of on the field of politics and religion, but also scientific rationality and spiritualism, between nations and states, terrorist and victim. It extends to the realm of familial relationships, parent to child, child to parent, teacher to student. It exists between lovers, friends, mentors,peers (which is really what peer pressure is all about).
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