Surface issues & superficial solutions

Surface issues & superficial solutions

This is from Millennium.  Modified to some extent.

Tell me how all of the surface issues, like economics, politics, governments, religions, economic models, racism, sexism or any other preposterous proposed bases for improving our predicament can possibly compare in any way to something so fundamental to our existence, something so crucial to the basis of our lives as adapting the state of coitus to suit a sentient race that is fully aware of its lack (whether they want to admit it or not)?

Coitus is not some superfluous issue.  It affects who we are and every aspect of our existence.

All of the superficial solutions like the brute force effect of laws, religious dictates, regulations, mores, and ethics have no real effect other than to contain the madness to the slightest degree.  It is not even an attempt to correct  anything.  These are actions that are forced on the individual from the outside.  It corrects nothing.  The pressure builds and the pressure cooker bursts apart regularly.  It gets worse each time it happens because our intelligence and capabilities increase while the emotional backdrop remains mad.

        The real and necessary change must come from within, by facing the issue that has distorted our existence for three millennia.   All of the feeble efforts to tweak the surface issues or force conformity with superficial solutions have never improved the situation one iota and never will. 

    External influences do not get us closer to being Human.  It only gets us closer to completing an absurd mimicry of Humanity. 

The attempt to use external influence of punishment is an animal mimicking what it thinks it means to be Human, while completely ignoring the internal struggle.  

Excerpt from Book 6.

The Trouble With Troubles

    Attacking surface issues is like playing the game Whack-A-Mole.  More idiocy will always pop up until we rid ourselves of the last of the animal's stupour.

Our whole approach has been based on the assumption that we are irretrievably screwed up.

We are no closer to our Humanity than we were three thousand years ago and, yet, we can get there in a virtual instant. 

Do you really think that a law should be required for a man not to rape a woman?  Do you really think that little of men and humanity in general? You are looking in the rear view mirror.

How about a man's own self-respect restraining him from such a heinous act?  There is only one reason for men's lack of self-respect.