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Every style. Every home. It does make sense. It seems baffling.
It seems like it doesn't make any sense. It drives you nuts. The things some people believe and do and say, but here's the thing. It does make sense.
It makes sense to them because they're not as informed as you because they haven't had the advantages you have because they haven't been blessed with the philosophy the way you have. That's why they're superstitious. That's why they make the same mistakes over and over. That's why they can't see through various fears or biases.
That's why they fall for demagogues. One of the insights in meditations is the idea of really putting yourself inside other people's thinking, getting inside their brain. What you'll find is that this isn't always a pretty experience. What you'll also tend to find is that it's a lot less baffling once you get in there.
That there actually is a kind of logic. It's just that the logic is defined by different influences, by a different education. Often, the inability to do this very active empathy that you are in the middle of trying to practice. So look, they can't imagine what it's like to be someone else.
That's why the racist or crueler, so certain about certain things. But you can. And this demands that you understand why they're acting this way, that you understand that even though the belief or the action might not be acceptable, it comes from a human place. It demands, as Marcus Aurelius lays out in the first part of Book Two of Meditations, that you figure out how to both avoid being infected by this ugliness and still find a way to work with this fellow human being because that's our job.