What Makes People Tick?
Do you ever struggle to understand why people do the things they do? Or even the things you do? What is it that drives our behavior? Is it many things? Too many to even consider? We are complex beings inhabiting a complex universe, after all.
Is it our beliefs? Is it the society we live in? Is it our personality quirks? Is it the gender we are assigned at birth? Is it our experiences? Is it our brain chemistry? Or the brain states that result from that chemistry? Our culture? Is it the way corporations convince us to express our identity through consumerism? Is it evolution — both biological and psychological? Is it social media? The algorithms that tell us what they think we will like? And maybe even convince us that we do like certain things? Is that digital evolution?
Or, am I overthinking it?
Is it much simpler than all of that? Are some people just assholes? Are guys just dicks? And every single one is assholish or dickish in their own unique way?
I really hope it is not that simple.