I learn a lot from other thinkers, but much of my thoughts grow out of pondering about what I experience in everyday life. Interacting with others is the catalyst for my theorizing about people, about life, about the universe.
As a ontological moderate, it should not be surprising that I hold conflicting, contradictory views about people. On one hand, people possess free will and each person is singular, unique.
On the other hand, there are overriding, natural laws that govern human behavior. How groups and individuals interact and clash is the obsession and fascination of my life. I try to uncover the genetically conditioned, archetypal roles undertaken and enacted over and over again, generation after generation, a complex, painful often tragic play and stage upon which rigid roles are adopted and carried through in the group versus loner interactions. These deterministic role-playing and behaviorial exchanges do much to constrict human liberty and truncate reaching out for happiness.
If we can get all to admit that they are sinners, and natural herders,and then, admit and accept that if they are in the herd (a joiner by choice, heredity or social assignation) and invariably, daily encounter loners and individualists of various degrees of greatness and independence exerted, that the encounter between joiners and loners is usually negative, then we have an ethical baseline for raising group consciousness about how to get along with and accept and tolerate each other.
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