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The need to feel part of a
group, not different, is in some way part of man's nature, even if some, for certain long or short periods of time, want to detach
themselves, separate from the group, so to be "a
loner".
It's the conflict between the need to be unique and the need to belong to a
group, so to be sociable. These two coexisting needs of human
beings, are differently combined, according to the different
cultures.
In some ways, we can observe that it is easier for populations with more creativity to have developed the need of
uniqueness, while those less creative have a more developed sense of belonging to the
group. In any case, whether more consciously or
unconsciously, the two needs coexist in each and every one of
us.
The need to belong to a group has consciously
originated, due to the inadequateness of the human being to live alone. A
human, placed on a desert island , doesn't have much future.
A part from the difficulty to find food, defend himself from eventual aggressions from nature, he or she in addition to this must cure
him/herself when sick. He/she doesn't have a future
because, he/she can't reproduce. With his/her death, everything
finishes.
Every living specie has the inborn instinct of survival of the itself, a kind of "Eros" of the group (don't misunderstand me), which has evolved in time, according to the needs. Like for the single individual, when a group develops a tanathos superior to the Eros, it extinguishes, and
disappears.
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