metonymy4u

As a primate with a large brain, I often find myself swimming through an emotionally intense social context. Despite how common this experience is, our culture tends to punish anyone who dares to speak of it. And it seems reasonable to suppose, as many have, that such emotional stigmata may be some of the prime controlling variables for what we call mental illness. With them, it seems to me we get attributions of many fantastic kinds: intent where there is only effect, sin where there is only chemistry, will where there is only want, should where there is only could, evil where there is only occurrence. Reward of endless cruelty and spiraling violence. Can we never see each other as we are?