Static item number two

I think that when describing the human, amongst other things, you should call it adaptable and morally resilient.

Perhaps also easily influenced.


Of course, the typical -western? modern? wealthy? respectable?- person is hardly any of these things. Rather, they are stubborn and fragile. On the surface of things, that is.
And all things relative.

As an example, recall how simple it is to endure a lifetime of stress and hardships or ease and dullness so long as your mind remains elsewhere, yet how little is needed for any situation to be labelled a great hazard to sanity. Born of socially inflicted and enforced fears, understandably, but still; if a machine can break itself so easily, some fault must lie in the manufacturing, if only the lack of a plan for the occasion.


And then, when the mind drifts to the present, this is what happens. Frivolous attempts.

Or rage.

With a mind on the present, painfully created complacencies can be lost and, in general, things become a bit less stable.
But the mind doesn't like to stay in the present, so all is well.