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It's ironic to me that your second to last paragraph is about the mentally ill not getting the help they need. That cries for help fall on deaf ears. Then you c

It's ironic to me that your second to last paragraph is about the mentally ill not getting the help they need. That cries for help fall on deaf ears. Then you conclude with the idea that hate was the only thing that kept tribes of humans together and that now we're a big happy world. I'd argue that compassion and tolerance are best practiced in those small groups as well, as you are forced to recognize the person behind the stereotypes (Note: I live in a town of 800 people and can tell you the names of many people who struggle with mental illness, some of whom I've been blessed enough to be able to help at times). So I'd actually argue the opposite of your point. Sociologically it's been demonstrated that humans tend (not always) to operate best and honestly in a certain size group. DuPont set up their labs based on this number, though I can't remember it off the top of my head. No human is capable of honestly considering the needs of the entire human race. That's just silly.

orionblastar 13y ago
I never claimed we were a big happy world, to the contrary. We have a lot of problems we need to address, hence my post about world issues. In society people tell others comfortable lies to make them feel better. To hide the truth from them. Often people resort to humor as in sarcasm, or satire when they cannot stand another person or group. Sometimes it leads to stereotypes and pre-judgement, sometimes people believe those sorts of things as truths even if they are lies and fiction, perhaps even delusion. True not one person can run the entire world, Sony and others found out they cannot even run multiple parts of their global operation and had to make each national HQ independent to work, otherwise they had failure. I think it is called The Peter Principle if I am not mistake. If there is a NWO or Illuminati, they cannot control the entire world, it would be impossible. What many contribute as conspiracy is really just gross incompetence. As a mentally ill person, when I first became mentally ill in 2001, I suffered and was in pain a lot because I was rejected by my peers, by management, by my family, and even my friends left me. I had an 'invisible illness' they could not see, but I was as disabled as a blind person, a deaf person, or a person with no legs. Yet there was nothing but hate for me, mocking, persecution, insults, bullying, and being told by some that I should "Just commit suicide to free up world resources for everyone else" because of how useless I was, and no longer considered a human being. I am told that I am lucky to have survived it all. Most mentally ill people in my situation do kill themselves. You see it in these startup groups, but nobody wants to talk about the stress and pressure in them that causes mental illnesses and how people have to hide their mental illnesses in order to keep working.

orionblastar 13y ago

I never claimed we were a big happy world, to the contrary. We have a lot of problems we need to address, hence my post about world issues. In society people tell others comfortable lies to make them feel better. To hide the truth from them. Often people resort to humor as in sarcasm, or satire when they cannot stand another person or group. Sometimes it leads to stereotypes and pre-judgement, sometimes people believe those sorts of things as truths even if they are lies and fiction, perhaps even delusion. True not one person can run the entire world, Sony and others found out they cannot even run multiple parts of their global operation and had to make each national HQ independent to work, otherwise they had failure. I think it is called The Peter Principle if I am not mistake. If there is a NWO or Illuminati, they cannot control the entire world, it would be impossible. What many contribute as conspiracy is really just gross incompetence. As a mentally ill person, when I first became mentally ill in 2001, I suffered and was in pain a lot because I was rejected by my peers, by management, by my family, and even my friends left me. I had an 'invisible illness' they could not see, but I was as disabled as a blind person, a deaf person, or a person with no legs. Yet there was nothing but hate for me, mocking, persecution, insults, bullying, and being told by some that I should "Just commit suicide to free up world resources for everyone else" because of how useless I was, and no longer considered a human being. I am told that I am lucky to have survived it all. Most mentally ill people in my situation do kill themselves. You see it in these startup groups, but nobody wants to talk about the stress and pressure in them that causes mental illnesses and how people have to hide their mental illnesses in order to keep working.