The Emotional Cost of Civilization

MESA, Ariz. - June 14, 2026 - PRLog -- I want to take a few moments to offer an overview of where I believe we stand as a species. We live in a world with a great deal of trouble, sadness, and pain.
Since humans began social contracting five thousand years ago, our story has been remarkable especially in science, technology, and the Industrial Revolution. Why wouldn't we believe we're on the threshold of solving all our problems?

But things are not turning out very well. Many people are losing confidence that we have anywhere to go. No one knows what is coming, but what I am saying to women in abuse shelters and really to all women, this is: there was a time when humans decided we wanted to control life rather than continue participating in its process. To do that, we had to reject our innate feelings how we felt in the moment in order to shape the future as we thought it should be. The problem is that, to do so, we had to leave the feelings we were born with in the dust.

Given recent developments, growing numbers of people sense that something is fundamentally wrong, but they don't know what it is. They don't even know how to think about it. It has occurred to me that if we look at the other social primates, we see them still
participating in the process of life. It's up to each person to judge whether they or we are better off. But if we ever begin to suspect that the other social primates remained on the sustainable track and that somehow we got off, we may arrive at a possible answer to what has gone wrong, one that we have never considered before. Having formalized our family relationships thousands of years ago, we function as if we were a pair-bonding species rather than the social primates that science says we are. And because we must pretend to be something we are not in our most personal relationships, our biggest problem is that our families are dysfunctional.

We have organized ourselves around the idea of pair bonding to the point that people measure their moral worth largely by how well they honor their promise to love one person for life. Without pair bonding, we would have no standard to live up to. So when it comes to family, with so much of our identity resting on fulfilling that promise, we can't imagine living any other way, no matter how dysfunctional our families become.

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