Freedom Expanded: Book 1—The Old Biology
Part 4:4A Firstly, we have been unable to confront the issue of the human condition itself, the issue of why aren’t humans cooperative, selfless and loving?
Above all other truths, we, the upset human race could not afford to confront the issue of the human condition itself—the issue of why aren’t humans cooperative, selfless and loving? Trying to face down the truth of our less-than-ideally-behaved, even ‘fallen’ or corrupted human condition without understanding of it could lead to suicidal depression—it is, as Jung described the situation, a ‘shattering experience…to gaze into the face of absolute evil’. And the more the explanation of the human condition is fleshed out, the more apparent it will be just how extremely upset—that is, angry, egocentric and alienated—the human race has become after two million years of having lived with unjust condemnation that it couldn’t refute. It is only now with the explanation and thus defence of the upset state that it becomes safe to begin to confront the truth of the extent of the upset within the human race and the issue it raises of the human condition.
