[split] On Human Nature

[Diana]

Also, you say "human behaviour is all over the map, suggesting an imbalance", is that because balance has to be behaviour consistent across a species? Is balance incapable of being diverse?

I would not want everyone to be the same. I do like diversity. But personally I would like to live in a society that wasn't so extremely self-centered and asleep that we have starvation and suffering and so little respect for other life forms.

Diversity can still exist without it being unconscious. In fact, I imagine that true diversity will emerge when we as humans start to really understand ourselves, to know ourselves apart from the media, the cultural pressures, the childhood wounds and roles. When an individual can find his or her core self underneath all the programming, then, I imagine, he or she would flourish as a truly unique expression.

You don't think our current state is a step towards finding the core self? Is this another one of those expressions that humans are more than their bodies? Even supposing that is true, the discovery still appears to be happening through bodies. (Although "extremely self-center and asleep" seems like a comparison of yourself to others.)

I think people are more asleep than ever because of the extreme state of media influence. People are plugged into their devices more than ever.

Are you suggesting that this current world is not, to a large extent, asleep and self-centered? Or are you suggesting that I am an elitist who thinks I have no waking up to do myself?