As civilized people, we are secure. We can predict the behaviors of others (that is, if they share our stories); furthermore, we can control our environments weil enough to ensure that our subjection to threat and punishment remains at aminimum. It is the cumulative consequences of our adaptive struggle-our cultures-which enable this prediction and control. The existence of our cultures, however, blinds us to the nature of our true (emotional) natures-at least to the range of that nature, and to the consequences of its emergence.
