but i’m half-serious. I need stuff to work towards, and i need it to be compelling to me, but i also need it to have some greater value than me. homeostasis and all that is fine, but I am not really digging the lunar/psychic paleolith scene and its devouring-mother tendencies. Why else the insistence on the “spiral” dynamics, or the “eight-circuit” model, or even any other developmental model that implies progress beyond the current state? Things happen for a “purpose” and that purpose is a structural necessity–and humans are the only animals that survive by living beneath their potential–the why of which I will carry to the end of my days.