This concept helps us see the "double-edge sword" nature implicit in much of our thinking, and therefore also of our profound insights.
Abstraction might seem obvious enough, but let us trouble it a bit. Abstraction can help us think and understand, connect and transcend. Abstraction can also hide violence and suffering,lean toward reductionism, and erase the full complexity of what is. Thus we do use abstractions in our work and we also face and bring awareness to what abstractions obscure.