3.5 A 'We' Bit of 'I'
"How can you be in two places at once?"
Since our existence depends on the nurture by others, social culture drapes your natural scaffolding. Actually, biological structures are directly affected and effected by our social interactions. This has been evidenced in direct distortions such as foot binding and bodybuilding and less direct via epigenetics.
3.5.1 Everything In Relation
No One Got Here Alone
Denying we are "of the people" is a deep self-deception. Many "personal motivation" promoters espouse individuality as if it were above social being.
Biology trumps perspective, at least over time. Our world is not how we "see" it but how we relate "with" it. Knowing your "self" is akin to knowing your place in the world's flow.
3.5.2 Becoming Is a Group Sport
Waltzing in the Herd
We are uniquely precedent in our self perception. From our earliest expansion into the world it is expanding into us reciprocally.
The order in the apparent chaos of growth comes from biological needs to acquire sustenance and safety. This is overwhelmingly met with the familial and social requisite needs of sustaining genetic lines.
3.5.3 Knowing, Owing & Sowing
The Actor's Gilt
Our egoic development is favored by evolution. The drive for survival and reproduction, spawn of family to spawn family creates "self" with a core of opportunistic advantage.
Knowing provides the leverage to exploit the environment through adaptability. Acquiring and manipulating both materials and positioning and orienting in social processes.
The ability to be "one" forward, in absence of family or group support provides evolutionary advantage. Having and knowing (owning) one's capabilities and capacities affords strong identity and supports propagation in kind.