Climax
We exploit fish by using their instinct to eat. Similarly, economies feed on our instinct to acquire and establish comfort. Except there is a difference, for the fish do not influence our thinking... but economy generally thinks the way we do. It is not a superior colonial organism, since not all of us want the economy to grow. It is rather group intuition. That was a general thing. My numbness seems to be provoked by a lack of care for the self. Why do we so easily develop mental pathways that quickly become fixated and cyclicly misfire? Isn't it amazing how the mind is able to quickly process complex logical pathways that underly frustration and fear, without it being brought to the conscious? Perhaps sometimes we just so badly require a renewal of self that any lack of care for the mind leads to an inevitable spiral towards unending interior conflict. Or perhaps the desire for attention, fear of rejection and other social impairments just occupy so much of our "ape-d...