Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote:
I never felt belonginness to any race, ethnicity, religion even gender or an age. WP is probably going to be an exception. It seems so. <snip>
So my kind will vanish. "Normal" people who define/mark any difference as abnormal will continue to loot/plunder the world. I guess this is a biological drive to reproduce or drive to perpetuate one's lineage.
Thanks for reading.
I have never had any doubt about being male, without doing anything macho to "prove it." I was open to other religions, or none, rather surprised that an accident of birth set most people's religion, and sometimes even politics. I never felt like I really belonged in my family, and attempts to belong elsewhere have never lasted a decade. I did identify with my generation for a while.
I thought that my early alienation was quite normal, and caused by having evolved for life in a small tribe, but being stuck in a huge, complex society. I still think that is a stress common to almost everyone now, driving us into crazy behaviour just because bad choices are so available. I just felt it more because I was also feeling alien from AS in myself and my family.
I did not reproduce, but I don't worry about that. It takes a lot of uncreative people to make the work on one original thinker pay off. The genes to produce those pioneers persist at lower levels, and will occasionally combine again.