The best we can hope is to be civil

Subject: The best we can hope is to be civil.

The Nobel Savage, the ghost in the machine, the concept that culture lives outside the individual as a force baring down on them, a super organic mind. All seek to imply that humans are organically joined by some sort of creative good, be it in our religious design 
or as the concept of the Nobel Savage would have it our most basic self is benign and seeks harmony.
The Blank Slate on the other hand suggests that we are creatures of our environment susceptible to the exposure of what we experience and moulded from birth by events.

Biology, and the genetic hand me down of characteristics and traits which distinguish each individual from the next seems to fly in the face of a 'divine collective' or even a non divine collective, rather we are pretty much on our own and each unique.

It rather blows a gaping hole in our wish to form social cohesion when we are all different, other than the force of self protection which suggests that Christ's call to "do unto others as you would have do unto yourself" is a good plan. There's no suggestion of an innate brotherhood rather a recognition that we are separate but need to recognise the 'otherness' in each of us.

In today's reflective world, with the boundaries drawn in to a daily storyline on television we see the myriad cultures drawn from the practical experience of living somewhere else and we try to find a social thread to tie ourselves into some sort of social commonality. But what if there isn't any commonality, what if our unique genetic variability defines us as separate and the most we can ask of each other is to be civil.