11 September

My first call at work yesterday was a guy who said “what can I do about the prick who lives across the road from me?” The default state of human life is not happy, peaceful coexistence. It’s fighting, for status. America is not getting more ‘polarised’, it’s swapping collective life for social life. Social life is pure violence. Imitative violence. Without some massive disruptive treat to life itself, this is what humans will always do. Fight each other, for status. In imitative teams. Then if you get wars or plagues or natural disasters, suddenly a ‘we’ occurs, where people ‘come together’. The peaceful, healthy and prosperous lives we grew up with were still a legacy of the post-WW2 time. Now that ‘we’ is long gone.