nevertheless

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If you were to consider the mechanisms that you use as coping strategies in life, the things that help you get through life, what would they be?

Family?

Friends? 

Animal companions?

Humour?

Connection to a broader reaching or higher order of power or intelligence?

How many of these places and points of connection have been reformed and remade over the course of your life so far? How many by you, and how many by others?

I was thinking about humour and the challenge that it can create in some people, and how some people even use that challenge to shut down the expression of others, and i was wondering, who benefits from this and how?

I can understand why some theories of conspiracy point to the dissolution and attacks on family, national identity, religion, humour, and more as being instruments of control, because by removing the structures and practices that make coping, not just possible but also meaningful - by removing connection in so many ways - are we not destroying some fundamental mechanisms that help us to survive (and prosper)? And more to the point, what happens to our lives as a result? And who gains from this state of affairs? 

Lot's of questions...

I'm not suggesting that traditions and existing structures cannot or should not be challenged, rather, what is the underlying principle, or principles beneath them that we benefit from that are in some way being eroded? 

At the root of it all, I see connection.