There is something interesting about today’s Software and game patches. We didn’t have the ability to do this back in my day. Well I wouldn’t say it was my day. It was our parent’s day. When they were making games for us kids, they had to get it as perfect as they could make it before releasing, because that shit was burnt onto a cd or placed into cartridge memory so that it could be played on a console that had no internet access, therefore no system or game updates.

We can update our software any time of the week now, but you know what doesn’t update very often? Our human brains. If not kept in check, we rely on the same dumb shit that got us out of trouble during times when we were in unfavorable environments that we are no longer in today. As a result of that, we cause trouble in our current relationships because our Survival Mechanisms are testing our new healthier relationships against the kinds of relationships we had back then. For example, suppose friends and family were not trustable entities when we grew up in the hood because they would all steal our shit and sell it for petty cash. That would lead to 360 degrees of mistrust. You can’t rely on anyone for anything. If we put ourselves into the more comfortable scenario of today where we’re in a clean neighborhood where everyone is minding their own business, the survival mechanisms of mistrust will still be active in a mind that hasn’t trained itself to adapt to the new environment. The new environment doesn’t help the human mind readjust.

Adults become troglodytes when they’re so out of date that their survival mechanisms are an image of an environment and circumstances that are long gone from modern day life.