"If our contemporaries are not encouraged to accept their multiple affiliations and allegiances; if they cannot reconcile their need for identity with an open and unprejudiced tolerance of other cultures; if they feel they have to choose between denial of the self and denial of the other --- then we shall be bringing into being legions of the lost and hordes of bloodthirsty madmen." -Amin Maalouf, 1998. I've been stuck for a very long time trying to figure out what should the next Baby Step be, and honestly I didn't manage to go that far. Most of my thoughts were generally surrounding the notion of empathy; or better empowering empathy. But how, to what extent and concerning what exactly that has been a never ending dilemma to wrap my head around; until I accidentally went back to Maalouf's Les identités meurtrières, which explores into the meaning of identity and the gruesome acts of expression committed in its name. And it hit me. Wh