>>31
It's not so funny.

Any genuinely insightful writer on the nature of social existence will have at least some sympathy for the idea that society is a sort of dovetailing of deformations and disabilities.

"Getting on" with people doesn't mean you're mentally and morally healthy and intact.

It just means that the wounds and deformations that have been inflicted on you - which are very likely to include the inculcation of a deep hatred of yourself and a deep fear and mistrust of those around you - "dovetail" well with the similar wounds and deformations that have been inflicted on everyone (or almost everyone) else.

The human being who has somehow escaped these deep, primal "wounds" that are inflicted as part of the process of socialization in early childhood is precisely the one who tends to be "wounded" most - who has to put up with the most "pricks and kicks" - in later life.

So there.