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Comment by drankula3 | Hacker News Reader

I think ignoring or suppressing our tribal nature en masse is part of the problem. We evolved in an environment of small, closely related communities, and develop in groups and out groups. Without a sharply defined in group, everyone becomes part of the out group, meaning we default to distrust until proven otherwise. It's sad.

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It's a dire state of affairs. Some people on HN will go on never marrying, having kids, or ever being in an intimate relationship. Race and culture also plays a big factor but society tends to only look for whatever elevates them, gloss over the uncomfortable truths, almost a collective ego which it shields itself the true side of human nature: The race towards monopolization of violence in the tribe through which the actors and directors of this selected group are able to exploit the mass and writing the rules of reality. One set of rules for us, the other for the rest.

I just don't find this human world exciting or interesting. I've come to loathe it. I am bound by karmic law so it's not like I can do whatever the fuck. I almost feel like my religion binds me to a life of a eunuch. Unable to indulge in one of basic human needs, unable to connect, because I've been trying to numb out this world since I was a kid. It's no wonder I am alone and others like me find themselves all alone. Our inability to bond, communicate, express is conditionally instilled through environmental circumstances you can't change. So I guess that's how Karma dictates who gets born to a nice loving rich family to everything that isn't. But society blames people like me, it's my fucking fault, there's something wrong with me, that if I just said the right things or meet the expectations in some quantitative manner. No more. The will to fight disappears and a sense of calm and wellness from submission to the present offers a warm refuge powered by the extra serotonin floating around due to medically induced state of inhibiting the reuptake process.

The present is the only Truth. The past and the future lives only in our memory and imagination.

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