> People increasingly expect to be able to react completely instinctively to stimuli I think this is true. If we're doing hypothesis about human behavior, you

> People increasingly expect to be able to react completely instinctively to stimuli I think this is true. If we're doing hypothesis about human behavior, you might be able to argue that our methods of communication, always forever online, have spawned this approach as an adaptation to stress of having to embody more personas for more numerous interaction. ( You can take it a step further and question the origin of 'acting' out a persona but i belief that in itself is extremely valuable ) On a further tangent, i still sometimes think about an Asian person commenting on the traits of US society to be obsessed with behaving as 'your true self' everywhere and all the time, whereas their culture it was noticeably less so.