Progressing or Regressing???

I use the nomadic Native American Indian culture of as a baseline for comparing and determining progression or regression.


The nomadic variable is very significant because it’s when a culture of peoples become sedentary in residency that they begin to specialize in their duties and talents, and that’s when corruption, unfairness, manipulation and greed begins to germinate, incubate and flourish. Also the accumulation of wealth was a real burden to move around constantly, and so, taking only they needed and sharing the surplus was a win-win option that promoted solidarity and strength for the whole culture.

The Native Americans excelled and prided themselves in raising their kids to have the innately divine spirit of confidence within all their children. And their respect for the wisdom of the elders, along with the appreciation of all of their animals and fellow tribe members was the magic that made them strong, brave and indestructible, almost.

Today, we kill over a million dogs every year because they have no purpose in our culture. We medicate ourselves with anxiety and depression drugs because we have no purpose with focus in our culture. Our kids wander about, getting into drugs and sex for lack of purpose with focus in our culture. And our elders, with their lifetime wisdom and experiences are atrophying in their rockers because they have no purpose with focus in our culture.

It’s too bad we can’t set our capitalistic profit obsessions aside and connect some simple humanitarian dots with our most precious resources.

NATURE verses NURTURE

Emotions are learned through experience and example.

Example: Take identical twins (identical DNA with slightly different phenotypes due to epigenetic influence ), as soon as they are born and put one in a cage, situated in the middle of a puppy mill with a nursing bottle only and treat this child the same as all the other dogs in there for capitalistic breeding purposes. Maintain identical living situation with no socialization at all, no exercise, never getting to leave the cage, minimal food, dirty water, filth, excrement etc, etc, etc. Include a mean kennel worker that torments daily with a squirt gun that causes severe aggression, or maybe a mean kennel worker that torments with a squirt gun then abuses with physical violence that causes severe fearfulness.

Put the other identical twin in a loving, well structured home with lots of dogs, cats, ginny pigs, birds and other children for playmates. Expose this child to all the wonderful experiences of birthing with all the many loving pets and all the natural nurturing care a well balanced mother will give to her off spring and see if empathy isn't picked up, absorbed, and internalized as a learned behavior (mimicking plus observational self-experience).

Then, after ten years of these consistent living conditions give CAT scans to both children and I suspect there will be a big difference in their neurological maps with many, many more large dead spots on the two legged creature that barks.

There are exceptions to everything along with unforeseen variables that make good fodder for argument and this might seem an extreme hypothesis, but Hitler and many like-minded psychopaths/sociopaths throughout human history did similar things to millions of folks. Just saying, as a realist.