The importance of people

Sometimes you feel you don't care one way or the other what the hell people think or don't.

But that doesn't matter. This isn't about that. This is about what happens in the in-between-ness of people, and like it or not, a lot is accomplished in that space. A lot. Enough to end up defining the people themselves. And more.

In Blood Diamond, when asked whether he believes people are innately good or bad, Dennis Archer replies, "People are just people." But for the circularity of the answer, one would be impressed.

I believe people are innately good. It is not a polyanna thing. It is simple logic, from the way i look at it. It is science. It is the law of evolution and natural selection. And anyone who really knows about evolution knows that it goes beyond self preservation and into such complex processes as social cooperation and altruism. In a previous post i mentioned an insight that goodness and honesty arn't virtues we need learn and practice. Once we see how natural they really are, once we realise that they exist to keep things clear and uncomplicated, that they are practical in a way no technological utility has ever been, we wouldn't not embrace them. There would be nothing so foolish as not to. there isnt anything so foolish.

this is why when i see people who are screwed up in the head (and almost everyone is, to some extent), i feel bad because this is not who they are. and i feel worse because they dont even believe that. there is just a sorry dearth of faith in human goodness and potential and potential for goodness in this worls, and that is where the tragedy lies. and this is why, though i am not exempt from occasional screwedupness-in-the-head, i have to become a psychologist.