As a species, our missing link is the ability to think both as a group and as an individual. We are unable to get over our borders and politics. We have to continually spy on each other, and set up deterrents. On the other hand, if we could average ourselves out, and think and work as a whole population, including who owns what, then we would lose the extremes in also our mental outlooks. The most basic one being our thirst for normalcy and love. Each of us has a shortcut or lazy innate "psychological defense mechanism" that quickly helps us smooth out every thing unsettling. As one's situation and overall station in life shift, so too one's mental view of oneself. But this mental shift is more of a coping mechanism than something based on reality. It just seems that with our faster paced lives, this mechanism has become the (abnormal) norm. Suddenly, over centuries, each of us came to see him/herself to be the norm, and w/o question or other doubt. Perhaps, the reason that people on message boards act so standoffish, and honestly can't see where others are coming from. And it is so strange to watch the different news networks, an almost collective schizophrenia. It might be, too, that we now turn on others instead of ourselves when the almost daily gulfs in the shifts in life become too wide to fast for our defense mechanisms to ever deal with.Originally Posted by blackhole
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