The Fall of the Soviet Union in Rare Pictures, 1991

[Lilith7]

No, not idiots, complex beings from a hazardous, fraught past, this is from deep inside our very being, our soul if you like, you have to understand where these drives derive from to counteract them, unfortunately few do.

We've always had to stay alert to stay alive in the past.

They blame the devil, lol, or some complex, psychological state or another.  It's the challenges we've faced and overcome as a group in the past, and the responses we developed as a result.

  We really have to try to do better; we know that in these times we don't need to be on alert all the time. 

With any luck I'll know more soonish; there's a book I've got on hold at the library, Why are we like this? Zoe Kean, which might have some answers....she said ever so hopefully.