We live in a country of marvelous space age technology that rivals the Jetsons. Yet, in the midst of all this truly revolutionary technological upheaval and luxury, people still group-live, live their lives in hierarchies, and base all of their worth as joiner-nonindividuators on their social standing within their pack, always with an eye to gaining increased status, rank and popularity in that tiny little world.
People are restricted and stultified by these primitive, instinctive, biologically generated social arrangements, but they stubbornly cling to them despite all the change that their electronic wonders have bestowed upon them.
Humans, who are half-angel, logical and rational, and half-beast, predatory, wild, carnivorous, sensual, and violent, have created this weird modern culture of most impressive technology and material comfort, supporting social behaviors at least 100,000 years old.
The altruistic, collectivist herding instinct that drives every institution is a testimony to how powerful and resilient nature is in adapting and evolving to dominate this world of pre-smart robot modernity.
Humans have a tremendous loyalty to their herding behaviors, and they lie to themselves to justify preference for this cruel, outmoded lifestyle of group-living that they are addicted to and should have shedded 100 years ago for individual-living and maverizing.
People eschew the call to individualism and high civilization, seeking to wallow instead in the stinky, diseased, herd quagmire, generation after generation. Will we ever move on from this barbaric past?
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