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My current theory is that our psyche is shaped by common stressors the way our immune system is shaped by common pathogens. Now that it's easy to create a too-clean environment, the immune system can cause autoimmune diseases because it's designed to develop while while resisting constant low-level pathogenic stress.
In the same way, our mind has evolved to develop while resisting constant low-level psychological stress, mainly caused by interactions with other people. They blame us, they shame us, they don't do what we want, they like things that we hate, they don't like us, they have bad hair days, they don't reciprocate, they lie, they cheat, they gloat when they beat us.
All these interactions used to be unavoidable for literally hundreds of thousands of years. But now modern society and modern technology let us avoid them, and we do. And this doesn't just hurt our communication skills, which is the motte, this causes various psychological traits that serve a useful purpose when developed normally to grow unchecked into pathological forms.
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