My point is that it didn’t because it’s not really “external” to us, but always a part of us and we a part of it. Humans’ evolutionary advantage over other spe

My point is that it didn’t because it’s not really “external” to us, but always a part of us and we a part of it. Humans’ evolutionary advantage over other species is our capacity for imitation, which allows for us to transfer skills and abilities outside of and beyond what is inherited through biological descent. But what this also means is that we’re constantly running these imitative, collective structures within ourselves at all times, seeking more and to share our own permutations of them. The reason people go insane in isolation is not because they’re confronted with they’re “freedom,” but because they’re more disconnected from this networked collectivity from which our notion of “self” is constituted.