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The Great State of Mind
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The human race is riddled with neurosis. I don't profess to be an authority, but you don't have to be, to recognise the attributes. Societies have been indoctrinated to hold fixations as normal human perception.
Take, for instance, the Victorian worship of respectability. Much of it was a neurotic fixation on keeping up appearance. This is the same, whether in Chinese or Arab societies. You must be seen to observe the rules.
Sexual relations are another common fixation, and they cross into gender assignments.
One of the most primitive, and mentally stultifying neurosis is the fixation realms that control us, and cannot be detected by our senses, or intellect.
It is in comparatively recent times that the Western societies have made enough social progress to face these issues.
Muzlim cultures are still mired in the dark ages, but because of world communications, they are confronted with the failure of their culture to provide any material benefit. Their solution is to reject progress by saying, "We have the Koran; progress is the work of Satan."
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