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It's a place full of people who don't understand each other.

Primitive tribes tend to handle association well. For instance, in African tribes when people fight, it's forgiven the next day. There's no grudge. And if you were an Inuit and you were banging ppl's wives while they were off on a hunt? Well they would push you into the ice next time you went fishing.

Human relations aren't complicated, it's people that complicate them. The different lifestyle are only shocking to those who forgot to be human.

Tryptamine said: 

Human relations aren't complicated, it's people that complicate them. 

I like it as a statement, it sounds good on it's own, but couldn't be argued that the complications wouldn't be present if they weren't human relations to begin with? 

Yeah, definitely.

It's just that they've become elaborate from so many angles. Like the media bombards people on what to think and feel, and we churn out generations of that. Then you have a parent raised on some narrative that was designed to make money, they set their kid in front of the TV, and they get the same treatment.

The reason why I brought up tribes, is because in tribes people are interconnected in a somewhat pure way. Sure they have their issues too, but nothing like what we have.

Our world is isolated, we have dopamine hits available from all directions. We are not evolved to this and I'm sure you're familiar with some of the shit. Like the study where if someone is hurt on the ground in a city, people pass them by. We're no longer in tune with our nature.

Hopefully that made some sense.

So basically we're cursed by history allowing us to retain absurd passages of time for their developments? 

Humans exaggerate by nature, so having something that chronicles all of it would have to lead to exaggerating towards the point of absurdity, right? 

Perhaps books are humanity's true curse, perhaps the book burnings were the right answer to save everything from us. 

I don't think it's quite that.

What I was saying is more like, the capitalist system sells us narratives that seem ideal. Or fearful, they sell us plenty of fear, too. The good narratives are over exaggerated. So are the fear narratives. Because what we are formed to think, from our textbooks to the news you and your parents watched, was always market-driven.

But it's not the fault of books. It's that society is complacent and will let people in power get away with anything. The NSA is allowed to spy on us all because of 9/11. That war is over, but the surveillance remains. This is where we are.

So it's more about being within a culture that promotes the internalizing of unhealthy concepts, and that as Globalism spreads and surveillance practices become more blatant that getting away from it is nearly impossible? 

But it's not the fault of books.

In a big picture sense, many atrocities done by human kind to ourselves and our planet would have never happened without books. 

It's what allows ideas to become seemingly immortal. 

It's a problem of the way we learn to think and relate now, and it's not correct.

So back in the day, if you were in a tribe, you had family around you at all times. If your shit with your parents was fucked up, you would go stay a few huts away with your aunt. Humans are communal and tribal, this is just what being a primate is like. Which makes our situation not good.

And to answer what you asked about globalism and expansion, yeah, I think it's become impossible. For society, not for individuals. Society is fucked, it's already gone.

And yes, books can be used in different ways. If you think of us as advanced chimpanzees who have access to recorded knowledge, this makes some decent sense.