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friendship is most likely a survival instinct. we know immediately -- if we've any sense at all -- that the world is hostile and there are no social structures that exist which specifically protect any one individual -- except, immediately, the love from mother.
so in order to survive, we immediately set about meeting other people who will value us above others, and who will therefore throw a vote in our favor when it comes down to it. and why will they do this? because we've done the same for them.
that'd be a contact, then.
at the same time, part of this contract involves a psychological necessity. we know, each of us, that we will live and die alone. we can be made to forget this if we spend time close to peope who aren't unbearable. so we go into the world and try to find the least unbearable people, and they try to find us, and we promise to all hold each other's hands and not remind one another of our oncoming end, until it finally comes, and we are "remembered". |
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