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Are we Nature's Backstop?

Plastic

The older I get, the more auties and aspies I find - the lucky ones ended up in their niche profession where they excel and create incredible things.   Throughout history, almost all breakthroughs can be attributed to someone who is clearly one of us and very much on the spectrum.

As NTs are all about social bickering and status, are they designed as nature's minions? - worker drones - cranking the handles of life (badly) and fighting amongst themselves while we quietly design the next major leap forwards in technology or war-winning invention to save their lives.    

It seems that whenever the faecal matter hits the air-circulation device, the NTs rely on our ingenuity to dig them out of whatever hole they have made for themselves.

So why do they treat us so badly?

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  • Plastic said:
    So why do they treat us so badly?

    I've heard it said before that our whole system and way of life is based on feeding the ego.

    If you look at the social stratification in the Western world today ' success ' is usually defined by having more. More money, more power, more social status, more material possessions, more houses, more cars or even having more friends. We are teaching kids from an early age that having more is essentially the ultimate goal in life and to be better than the next person is the road to a happy life. A better education, better grades, better exam results, better school, better Uni and so on.

    Advertising, social media, reality tv, gaming etc are saying to people you need this product, this type of partner, these kind of lips, this kind of house and so on to be happy. Basically, that happiness is to be found somewhere out there. Not within. Somewhere outside yourself. Only when you have accumulated all these things, then you will be happy, then you will have arrived. The problem is, you never have enough and you never arrive anywhere real under these pretenses. It is all superficial and your life is spent chasing external things.

    Is it any wonder then that we often find psychopaths or those displaying these tendencies who rise to the top of our society based on this system and we actually hold these people up as models of ' success ' ? Why then are we surprised to find division, fighting, war, egotism, stress, mental illness, greed, ignorance, anger, selfishness etc etc etc either encouraged or considered perfectly normal in our every day lives ? 

    There are even those who have been so conditioned to this way of life that you will often hear them say ' It's just human nature '.

    Plastic said:
    So why do they treat us so badly?
  • in reply to Turtle

    Exactly - enough is never enough.    The 'Me, Me, Me' focus of life.   

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  • in reply to Plastic
    Plastic said:
    Exactly - enough is never enough.    The 'Me, Me, Me' focus of life.

    In that children share in or are forced into assuming adult social identity pretences, this involves the sensational, reproductional and imaginal sensibilities off-lining or side-lining the emotional, communicational, sentimental and rational sensibilities ~ so that people compulsively-addictively seek to fulfil their ‘personal’ (primary) needs by way of ‘societal’ (secondary) desires; with the latter to various degrees or entire extents displacing and replacing the former so that fulfilment criteria are not on the whole or even at all met.

    A classic example of this state of affairs is chain-smoking, where thirst as a need to drink water has been displaced and replaced by the desire to smoke cigarettes, with cigarette smoking increasing the sensational sense of thirst and the ‘reproductional’ (habitual) consumption of more cigarettes being the imaginal displacement and replacement.

    The same sensory displacement and ideological replacement pattern involves in principle dependent relationships and irrational spending ~ hence enough rarely ever being enough, and the ‘Me, Me, Me’ focus of materialism rather than life, what with mass consumption leading to mass destruction by way of excessive competition and regressive cooperation, and all that.