Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
When there's change, people are always anxious.
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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