We must move from mindless denigration to mindful integration if we want to move from war to peace.

We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world.

Say yes to private, creative education, no to public progressive indoctrination!

Great minds look for good ideas that they can integrate into their expanding mindset. Small minds look for anything they don't like which is contrary to the belief system that they have mindlessly accepted. They then proceed to "throw out the baby with the bathwater" by denigrating the person or the group from which they picked out the unacceptable idea.

People get so involved in the game, there's a lot of mindless eating that goes on.

I would agree with your statement that many of my protagonists are outsiders. I wonder if we all are, and even people who don't think they are, and they're just better at masking it. When we shut our bedroom door at night, however well-integrated we think we are with the rest of society, maybe there's something illusory about that...