Mature cultures with a thorough understanding of the demons within face this terror and bewilderment directly. That's what a Vision Quest or Rite of Passage is all about. Allowing each member the necessary time and support to acknowledge this conflict within produces a more stable community. Allowing each member to taste these energies, to see the play of good and evil, to own both, and thus transmute that dichotomy into wisdom enables the indispensable transition from adolescence to adulthood. Demonization in a Black Trench Coat Immature societies take short cuts by packaging pre-conceived solutions.
Demonization is the most often used formula for severing the connection with our negative faction.
Personified as the Devil, these negative energies are cast into the Bottomless Abyss of One-sided Answers. Elaborate dogmas are substituted in their stead, in the hope this will bar the Evil One's return. This is avoidance taken to extremes. In the deluge of coverage of the Littleton tragedy, it's a wonder that some rambling journalist didn't point out that Darth Vader wore a black trench coat. Such a comment would still have made as much sense as most of their babbling commentary.