What is the main conflict in A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen?

In the main premise of Jensen's book, he compares and connects the abuse that he endured in his childhood home to the abuse that takes place in the world as a whole. He discusses what causes abuse as well as some of the reasons why abuse continues to occur. Jensen also talks of the ways that those who are abused protect themselves from their feeling that the world has deceived them.