I have been thinking about the transition from feast to famine again, and the experience of what was considered important washing away as real need makes itself increasingly apparent. And as I ruminate, a scene from the old movie”Meatballs” keeps popping into my head, where Bill Murray gives the stereotypical encouraging speech that ends with the whole group enthusiastically chanting “It just doesn’t matter!”

The Evolving Community
The Divine Duality is the fact that we are free willed individuals who are inextricably entwined into a community. While individuals and communities must continuously adapt to remain in contact with their environment, there is a limit to what is acceptable. The principle that must be maintained is that individuality must always serve the community, and community must always serve the individual.

The Third Rail
We humans evolved from pack animals into community animals, and then into society animals. We are now making the effort to adapt into civilization animals. At each stage of this evolution there were three expressions of the human experience; Masculine, Feminine, and Community Facilitator (for lack of a better word). 

The Facilitator’s role has always been to maintain the community on a spiritual/emotional level. To play a role that keeps people working together towards a similar overall goal. We see this role fulfilled first by people called shamans and witch doctors, then, as communities evolved, as teachers like rabbis and imams. With the expansion of community into a much larger society, this role was expressed in the form of institutional priests and clergy.

Now,.. I anger everyone.
The Community Facilitators have always experienced human interaction differently. They have a perceptual sensitivity that, when untrained, unfocused, and undisciplined, is destructive and intolerable. During the feast, when there is no need, Facilitators can become lost in the vanities of the general public. This is usually expressed by the effort to compete for attention with non-facilitators. 

Thus, I would argue that, while there are many people who are truly experiencing the world differently, the fantasies of infinite sexual and gender identities is a failed adaptation. Instead of adapting into their community role, they are trying to change the roles of everyone else so they can see themselves as successful in superficial ways that are not natural to them. This will become increasingly evident as we descend further into famine.

Individuality must serve the community, and community must serve the individual.