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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 9:44 AM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 13

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Ninth Descent — Farming This increased our anxiety and mistrust and the consequent compulsion to control ... out of fear of lack of resources ... and the next part of Nature that compulsion was directed to was the plant kingdom. We began growing our food — horticulture — to augment our gathering and hunting. This led to farming, to the agrarian revolution, and to agriculture, in time. Tenth Descent — Husbandry Controlling now our food sources through planetmate flesh (meat) and the plant kingdom, the next step was naturally to begin growing those planetmates in place, just as we had their distant sister plants. This is called domestication of animals or animal husbandry. Eleventh Descent — Sedentary Life and Storage Now, all this sedentary living, required for farming and husbandry, made it that we could store more things, which we were not wont to do when we were nomadic and would have had to lug it with us. Hence, we were “settled” in place, and we stored things. THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 13
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 9:44 AM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 13

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Ninth Descent — Farming This increased our anxiety and mistrust and the consequent compulsion to control ... out of fear of lack of resources ... and the next part of Nature that compulsion was directed to was the plant kingdom. We began growing our food — horticulture — to augment our gathering and hunting. This led to farming, to the agrarian revolution, and to agriculture, in time. Tenth Descent — Husbandry Controlling now our food sources through planetmate flesh (meat) and the plant kingdom, the next step was naturally to begin growing those planetmates in place, just as we had their distant sister plants. This is called domestication of animals or animal husbandry. Eleventh Descent — Sedentary Life and Storage Now, all this sedentary living, required for farming and husbandry, made it that we could store more things, which we were not wont to do when we were nomadic and would have had to lug it with us. Hence, we were “settled” in place, and we stored things. THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 13
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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:01 PM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 13

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 13 Seventh Descent — Hunting While in Nature, our needs were taken care of, but with this increasing mistrust and out of the fear that it engendered, we began thinking we needed to augment our vegetarian diet. We began killing planetmates, which we call hunting. Eighth Descent — Murder Killing planetmates, who are so much like us, and with the repression of conscience required, or, one might say the insensitivity, that came of that, we were able to kill each other. Cain killed Abel is the way The Bible expresses that, metaphorically. Ninth Descent — Farming This increased our anxiety and mistrust and the consequent compulsion to control ... out of fear of lack of resources ... and the next part of Nature that compulsion was directed to was the plant kingdom.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:36 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xiii

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THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xiii And our partner. And this last is something unique to modern times. It has been noted that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet — in which young lovers are tragically blocked by culture and family from choosing each other — presents a dilemma unique to history. While we have always had at least some say in who we marry or partner with — and more so in our primal times, i.e., when we were nomadic foragers or merely gatherer- hunters — with civilization and its hierarchical societies that choice has been largely determined by the surrounding cultural actors, not oneself. Parents or other societal proxies have most often, with civilization, decided with whom one was to spend one’s adult life. Similarly with career, craft, or occupation, historically children are born into the occupations they will adopt in life. Tinker, tailor, spy, or blacksmith, the boy takes up the craft of the father; the girl takes up the family roles and tasks as modeled by the mother. And by the way, that last crinkle in this is telling: The fact that women, in postmodern times, have taken back the freedom to choose careers and service of their own is an aspect of this explosion of cultural possibilities. All this is a product of an upsurge of technological innovation in the areas of communication and travel — specifically, telecommunications, electronic media, social media, and modern travel allowing much more contact between individuals of different cultures — which have revolutionized our way of life and made possible a new paradigm of participation in our societies and of personal identity and style.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:54 AM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 12

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Sixth Descent — Mistrust Both traumas — birth trauma and fetal malnutrition — contributed to the growth of that Ego and affected our personalities in many and varied ways. Part of this was the way it made imperfect humans even more lacking in caring for their infants. Thus we “acquired” even more primal pain because of insufficient satisfaction of needs. Mistrust of Nature Led to Control Compulsion Altogether we learned, early in our lives, that the world around us could not be relied on. Consequently, we began an ever-increasing mistrust of the world, which manifested, critically, in our relation to Nature and our feelings about how well we could have our needs met in it. Since we mistrusted, we began controlling. Control came in to fill the gap of mistrust that lay between need and satisfaction. INTRODUCTION Page 12
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 5:47 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xii

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From birth on — even before birth as the experiences a mother has are constituted by culture and affect therefore what a prenate experiences to at least some degree — culture puts a stamp on us. The cultural impression delimits the profile of our being and constrains our actions while facilitating others of ours. It opens and closes doors at the same time. Within the outlines of that template, however, we are required to operate and make less fundamental choices. Those choices, patterned and restrained by one’s culture, vary from the most trivial ... what to have for breakfast ... to the profound and life-altering. This, for example, would involve decisions about career and spouse. And something has happened in the current historical era ... something integral to these times being labeled postmodern ... that has made those choices more difficult than they ever have been in history. Yet potentially more freeing, more fruitful, more productive of freedom and felicity, more fulfilling and satisfying can those decisions be than ever before. For in these times — immersed in a multicultural soup with near infinite numbers of potentials and choices — we are responsible, more than ever before, and not as much culture-family- society, for choosing and creating our identity, our path in life. PREFACE Page xii
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 10:29 PM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema

INTRODUCTION, p. 12

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INTRODUCTION Page 12 Thus, we were beginning to have fetal malnutrition, because of our upright gait, which was another source of hellacious pain for us as neonates having vast consequences for human psychology. We stood up, and our soon-to-be-born children got really crowded in the womb. They were suffocating and starving in there, too. Fifth Descent—Ego Big brains were one way of dealing with this ever-mounting pain and trauma at our beginnings. However, concomitant to that was the creation of an Ego. In order to keep our early pain repressed as well as to seek the satisfaction of needs — now dependent on society for them — in a haphazard world, with no real certainty those needs would be met, we evolved an adaptation of consciousness that was split from Nature and removed from our experience of life. This Ego, being separate from experience, sought to act as a director or controller of the items of our consciousness as well as of our immediate environment. Our egos were modeled upon our parents, of course. So we would have all the shortcomings they had. Or we would have others in response or in reaction to theirs. This is called human personality.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 6:35 PM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, and Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema. PREF, p. xii

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PREFACE Page xii …commitments, careers, causes, service are most likely to return happiness? These are questions we all need to address in our youth, yet throughout our lives as well. They come out again specifically during mid-life, and particularly during the mid-life crisis. Identity The primary question of human existence is, “Who am I?” It is the starting place of philosophy as well as one’s identity. The question following that ... number two in priority in a human’s life, since we are act-ors as well as be-ings ... is, then, “Who to be?” We seem to have an inbred knowing that these two are connected: That what one does should be at least somewhat related to who one is. While throughout human history those are the fundamental concerns of life, they have been taken care of quite readily through the mechanism of culture. Culture is your society’s way of being in the world, its way of thinking, its way of making a pattern out of the infinite possibilities of Reality to provide guidance and orientation in life and in relationship to all around us. It plays into one’s identity ... who to be ... in a huge way.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 1:31 AM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

INTRODUCTION, p. 11

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 11 …up magnified that constriction of blood vessels. By contrast, the fetuses of our four-legged primate cousins hang loosely below the mother, not impeding the blood flow. Because of this reduction in the supply of nutrients to the fetus, the arc of growth, at the end of gestation, flattens out and does not catch up and begin retracing the curve established earlier in gestation until after birth. In the accompanying graph, the solid line represents our actual arc of growth, both before and after birth, and is contrasted with the dotted line indicating what a gradual and not impeded growth would be. You can see the discrepancy, or inhibited growth, beginning at around thirty-two weeks and not catching up until about twenty weeks after birth. The space between the two lines is attributed to fetal malnutrition. Thus, the prenate’s growth, measured by its weight, as well as body length, slows significantly beginning in the third trimester and especially during the last four weeks of gestation and resumes its spurt only when it is no longer in the womb. By comparison, our ape relatives, not to mention other planetmates, do not have that prenatal arrest of development.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 7:55 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xi.

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“One is not just better off being who one most is in potential; the Infinite opera of the All That Is demands it of us; it is the sweetest and most perfect symphony of all when one adds one’s unique contribution to it. Without your part, the harmony of the Universe is less for it.” What does one do in a postmodern, complex, multicultural world in which the options are so numerous and enticing as to paralyze one’s actions? How does one live a good life, a fulfilling life? What actions,.. THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xi
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 2:30 AM

*Who To Be* INTRODUCTION, p. 10

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Fourth Descent — Fetal Malnutrition Another development that came with bipedalism is that in the late stages of gestation, the prenate would be so large that it would press against the blood vessels in the surrounding environment and inhibit the blood flow to the extent that nutrients and oxygen were not supplied sufficiently. A big part of that reduction of blood flow came out of the fact that standing… INTRODUCTION Page 10
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 4:05 PM

*Who To Be* INTRODUCTION, p 10

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INTRODUCTION Page 10 …altriciality. Because we were premature relative to our primate relatives in Nature, we had to have that period of twelve months, which in primates would be in the womb, outside in the world of society. That is to say, with people, basically the parents. Now, this meant that we were experiencing pain at the beginnings of life through birth trauma, then also through the fact that parents could not possibly take care of the needs of an infant as well as Nature could, as is the case with our primate relatives who experience their comparable brain development in utero.