Human Beings: As It Turns Out, Not Made With An Erector Set
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4 min readJun 30, 2017
Here’s a new thing I want everyone to try. Try to stop saying that human beings are “built” for any particular state or way of being. Because at least 99% of the time, when you make such a claim, you are patently wrong.
Here’s a list of things I have heard that humans/people are built for, or aren’t built for. And in most of these examples, I’ve heard both “are” and “aren't” used about equally — indicating less differences of opinion and more a whole lot of people talking out of their asses.
- To live in clean and neat spaces
- To live in chaos and clutter
- To be solitary
- To never be alone
- To grasp the wonders of the perceivable universe
- To ignore what we know about the wonders of the perceivable universe
- To live their life in the spotlight
- To live their whole life without ever being in the spotlight
- To believe in a higher power
- To function without the belief in a higher power
- To be monogamous
- To be polyamorous
- To live in sustained grief or depression
- To live in a sustained state of peace or…
