group solidarity sores when facing a common enemy

Page 104 group solidarity sores when facing a common enemy. Shared threats Foster unity. During conflict, we feeling noises. During wars patriotism surgeons .

— from Communication & Conflict (Communication/Conflict) · How do we know ourselves? By David Myers

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The opposite move, the one that lets you blame the other person and the circumstances for everything, has a name, too: it is the move of a victim. Beware, too, the cheap unity of a common enemy: groups bond fast against a shared scapegoat, justified or not, and that easy solidarity is one of the most dangerous forces in human affairs. The wiser counsel is Sun Tzu's — know yourself and the other side, and you need not fear the outcome of a hundred encounters; treat the clash like the old paradox of the immovable object and the unstoppable force, where the only escape is for one of them to move. — Communication & Conflict (Communication/Conflict)

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