I wonder how many problems ultimately come down to society not acknowledging or accepting that we are creatures that evolved in small, physically co-located communities that (with the exception of births and deaths) consisted of the same people for the...
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I wonder how many problems ultimately come down to society not acknowledging or accepting that we are creatures that evolved in small, physically co-located communities that (with the exception of births and deaths) consisted of the same people for their entire (short) life.
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I wonder how many problems ultimately come down to society not acknowledging or accepting that we are creatures that evolved in small, physically co-located communities that (with the exception of births and deaths) consisted of the same people for their entire (short) life.
By the time you were old enough to remember people, you had already met essentially everyone you would ever know. Meeting a "new" person wasn't impossible, but it was a relatively sparse occurrence that usually had some significance tied to it. Meeting a stranger by accident could be hazardous, if not deadly. Even if separate groups got along together, at every interaction people probably made efforts not to say or do anything to screw that up. New encounters had high stakes relative to now.
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By the time you were old enough to remember people, you had already met essentially everyone you would ever know. Meeting a "new" person wasn't impossible, but it was a relatively sparse occurrence that usually had some significance tied to it. Meeting a stranger by accident could be hazardous, if not deadly. Even if separate groups got along together, at every interaction people probably made efforts not to say or do anything to screw that up. New encounters had high stakes relative to now.
My point being that contemporary society doesn't seem to take any of that into consideration. It's all based on some vague abstraction of what a "person" is, not the reality that we are just especially clever apes. As a society, we expect too much of ourselves.
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My point being that contemporary society doesn't seem to take any of that into consideration. It's all based on some vague abstraction of what a "person" is, not the reality that we are just especially clever apes. As a society, we expect too much of ourselves.
By contemporary society I'm considered somewhat "anti-social" because I don't meet arbitrary expectations for social activity. I have ADHD because I can't meet the social expectations for executive function. I have "depression." I'm "neurodivergent."
If I lived in a situation that was structured more like our ancestors, I probably would have fit in just fine. I would probably have more friends than I do now. Might even be happier. I don't know
Why am *I* seen as dysfunctional, but not society?
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