loose canon

Two thoughts:

1. We humans are meaning-seekers. We create meaning around us like a spider creates a web, except our web is holographic, multi-dimensional. When our web of meaning disappears as it sometimes does, we become depressed. We enter "the dark night of the soul." We must have meaning or we die.

2. Though (and perhaps because) we are isolated from each other (no one, no matter how empathetic, completely enters our world nor thoroughly understands), we congregate in meaning-clusters. As meaning-seekers, we tend to value those who endorse the same meanings we hold dear. We tend to shun, both actively and passively, all others.

Maybe this is all-too-familiar to you and prompts a large yawning ho-hum. To me it is strange, very, very strange. But then I have not adopted the meanings that are most predominant in our culture. Somehow the indoctrination didn't "take."

Recap: Each human is alone. Humans congregate in meaning clusters.

One more thought:

3. Only those with Creative Imagination and willingness to follow it veer outside the bounds and bonds of conventional meaning. Accustomed to and not threatened by aloneness, they do not join the usual meaning clusters.