And it is the one thing keeping us together.

We are not designed to live in a dense city. We do not like only having a small amount of space to put our stuff (as George Carlin aptly calls it), and we certainly do not like for other people to stand in our way. Be it on the street, in a mall (where it is to be expected though) or even in a bar where we go to meet people. We are often annoyed by people we don’t know.

Which is exactly the reason why! We don’t know those people, but we share a living environment with them. I think we can safely say most of our subconsious urges and inner-body workings come from a time where the earth wasn’t crowded and we certainly did not live stacked on top of eachother. We did live with other people though, we lived in tribes that could be very big from time to time. But these were people we felt kindred to, and most of  the time actually were. In later times, we felt connected through a common religion or by sharing a small part of history together if you lived in a town for 50 years. Nowadays, we have no ties to the people around us and we should thank whatever lord you wish for etiquete.

Because if we weren’t taught to lie innumerable times a day, if we would always speak our mind or act immediately. Things would quikly turn sour, very sour. Have you ever thought of the reason why people start looting immediately when there’s a riot? I imagine its because all other reasoning falls away and people think straightforward to what they desire most, to have it all.

It is a blessing that we are taught to think from the point of view of others, it saves us all from a lot of trouble. But would it be true to say that in an living environment as dense as a major city, people should think from the perspective of the others they encounter, not their own? By living this close to eachother, we should start to think as one organism, not as individuals.