Who We Are as Social Beings

The meme here came from a reader, to which I respond:

Good for you!

It seems that human beings are wired to think about the world in one or the other of these two modalities.  No one knows precisely where this “wiring” come from, but it’s obviously some combination of our DNA and our lived experience.

Spiritualists, i.e., those who believe in the immortality of the soul, will add into this mix the basic personality that we all come into this life with.

In any case, regardless of how you got here, congratulations to you for caring about the people around you.  Now that “wokeness” is a pejorative, it comes at a cost.