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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Psychos (5/31/2008 7:42:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
My feeling is, when we have finally rid ourselves of the age old stupidity of differences based upon gender, race, religion and sexuality, well, not so much sexuality, as that was something the emerging psychiatry profession of the 1900's chose to define, we will have yet more little boxes to divide ourselves and argue about.
That being, will humanity ever evolve into anything more than a society based upon segregation ?
In all honesty? No, we probably won't ever "evolve" past a state of classifying those around us based upon various criteria. Only the criteria will change, as they have over the millenia several times. There have always been "little boxes" that one was placed in by another - we simply (as a whole) didn't call them "little boxes" - castes, social classes, and divisions based on such have always existed where there have existed societies that desired some sort of uniformity amongst it's population. Which is to say within all societies.
It's not necessarily a Bad thing, when kept in proper perspective. It is simply another form of Judging - it is in human nature to make judgements, about everything around us, period - it's how we Form our preferences, our likes and dislikes, our opinions. I get a giggle out of those who say they "never" judge - they're either lying to themselves in the worst way, or they are so bland and opinionless as to have an utterly meaningless existance. We, as humans, have a natural desire to associate with each other, and an inborn preference to associate with those who are similar and complimentary to us in some way. If there were no "boxes" - how would we determine (even on a subconscious level) who was complimentary as opposed to detrimental to our views and preferences? Or perhaps your desire to do away with All such classifications means that, on some subconscious level, you desire us all to be just alike in our thoughts, deeds, experiences, and preferences. It would be a very boring world indeed, if we all had the same tastes and preferences, the exact same experiences - even the exact same advantages, because then none of us would have an opportunity to Excell, either.
I've taken a couple of social psych courses - along with things like The Psychology of Abnormal Behavior (loved that one, I was the token "freak" in the course lol), Criminal Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychology of Human Sexuality (another eye opener where I was the token freak).
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