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Yeah the control thing is BS, we have to stop doing that because suppression leads to all sorts of problems. Anxiety, depression, inexpression. Human beings a
by JumpinJack_Cash 2y ago
Yeah the control thing is BS, we have to stop doing that because suppression leads to all sorts of problems.
Anxiety, depression, inexpression.
Human beings are made to be happy, sad, very happy , very sad and swing like a pendulum between such states
- gregjor 2y agoAnd your evidence? Evidence that human beings “are made for” anything? All of recorded history tells the story of human beings learning how to moderate and control their impulses and emotions. We need to learn that because we live with other people, as a social species. If human beings are made for anything, it isn’t for living alone. All social species moderate and tune their behavior to get along with others. When individuals can’t or won’t do that we call it narcissistic and sociopathic.
- JumpinJack_Cash 2y agoI will not depress myself for the sake of society, I could care less And besides countries where there are still strong sentiments seem to be standing and sustaining their population Latin America, Egypt, Sub saharan Africa, India etc.
- gregjor 2y agoIf you think individual emotions and impulses don't get moderated to conform to societal norms in any of those places, you need to travel more. People expressing their emotions differently than what an American thinks of as the norm doesn't mean those people don't moderate their behavior. India, to use just one of your examples, has fairly rigid family and caste structures and social expectations that almost everyone has to conform to. You may say you don't care, but we all have to get along with other people by moderating our behavior to some degree. The alternative is ostracism, the classic punishment, or choosing to live in a cabin the woods and going slowly mad from loneliness.