Over Fences

Can you just IMAGINE what life must have been like when people were actually not only encouraged but EXPECTED to think for themselves? A period in time when the average persons OPINION counted for as much as any supposed EXPERT, simply because of the knowledge of FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE?
Think about this in terms of the sheer numbers of people who have been victimized one way or another by someone Else's knee jerk labeling of behavior based on information which may in and of itself be sound, but only sound with ALL the dynamic variables of the equation COMPLETELY accounted for.
(the fine print which basically destroys any credibility of the suggested data when applied to an equation which the dynamic variables haven't even been addressed, much less accounted for)
Seen in this light, this condition resembles something more of a social disease than anything else.
So what does all of this indicate? What does it all mean?
What it indicates is the replacement of the human element of emotional experience or wisdom by cold statistical science. Where once we were a tribal people, who sought out the elders for sage advice or perspective, now we have replaced them and their warm human wisdom, intimately acquainted with human nature because of years of first hand personal experience, with statistical correlation or facts by the numbers.
It started with fences. Once, the land wasn't subdivided. It just was. For everyone. Then, as individuals began to attempt to gain control over land, they fenced it off. Now, all of the land is fenced off. Then individuals began to attempt to control each other, and fenced each other off. Once humanity had fenced itself in physically, it began to fence itself in mentally. Society, culture, rules, etiquette, ..........behavior. The human spirit wasn't designed for this. This is a sickness. This is why there are millions of people suffering from depression. Depression is our body's way of telling us that things aren't right. Our solution these days is to do what we always do in the mindless pursuit of power and money....ignore the Spirit. Treat the depression with drugs to trick the body into accepting the unacceptable. Fence in every possibly definable behavior and stick a label on it. Choke the Spirit down, gain control. Exploit control. This model is repeated in every aspect of human existence on this planet. The fact that now we are all networked together only allows us to see when one of us cannot take the denial of their Spirit anymore. We get the information in a flash. Someone cracked, someone lashed out and killed. What sort of behavior is that? Don't we have a pill for that? What answer does the bible of psychology have for that? Now we have global warming....never mind that, look what's going on over in fence section 33b.........people are killing each other......over fences.