People Are Strange

[H2O Man]

30. Family systems are

curious things. As the American economic system caused changes in family systems -- from the more supportive extended families of the agricultural phase, to the nuclear family of the industrial age, to the shattered family of the high-tech era -- it has likely mass-produced the type of personalities required for the work force.

In my own family of origin, my siblings and I had to guess at what was "normal." It surely couldn't be found inside our family system. I was perhaps lucky to be the youngest, in that I could benefit from my siblings' experiences.

It's not hard to find patterns, as you note, where we could easily fall back into patterns in relationships to people in real life, or even on the internet .....where one suddenly realizes they have had this argument before, with someone else, etc.

Strange thing, being human.