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half empty glasshouse - mental insulation theory lyrics

and though i’m bad at some things
and humorously so
i excel at others
give me a chance to show
don’t know how to say the rights things
don’t know how to self+promote
but i’ve got lots of ideas
to contribute to the world
yes, i was born with microscope eyes
took me 27 years to finally turn them inside
and now that i’ve applied them to this scientific mystery
i think i’ve figured out something
not just about myself
but about everybody too
and the balance that defines us
and the meaning of its distribution in the population

i am not a scientist but allow me this onе hypothesis
given how we humans arе such a social species
those of us born with minds that are less tightly connected to that all important network will veer off into unpredictable directions
yes, the tendency of most to learn by osmosis and imitation of everyone around them mediates extremes and brings them closer to the average
most are afforded access to a psychocommunal safety net that integrates them instinctively into a clear and stable role
and without that roadmap for typical development all that one is left with is the raw cognitive mechanisms for pattern recognition

and it could never be the case that everyone would think this way
because survival’s always been a matter of community cohesion
so nature masterminded an elaborate continuum
contingent on the outliers of the distribution
knowing many of them would be shunned, shamed and abandoned
even as the tools they make achieve widespread adoption
baffled doctors of the brain would try to understand
and in their search for an antidote, stumble on the truth
yes, the ties that bind the masses are vital to their conservation
be they deities and nations, or courtesies and gestures
they keep the language alive through the generations
yet nourish all our most destructive dogmas just as well
the balance it must be preserved, the spirit of the scientific method
encrypted in the dna of a child who will never learn to speak
diametrically opposed to the schizophrenic ethos that seizes man
in absence of this insulation from external thought
oh, the balance it must be preserved, the source of innovation
is easily mistaken for the seeds of malice and disorder
the tribe that judges harshly those that struggle with its rituals
will be in short supply of saviors when its vital engine stalls
oh, the balance it must be preserved, the fulcrum of civilization
is a well+placed wrench amidst the gears of our social apparatus
that starts to contemplate the inner workings of the machine it has disrupted
discreetly takes the wheel and steers this massive horde of apes into the future
the balance must be…
preserved!

- half empty glasshouse lyrics

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