Perhaps the purpose of society is to decondition our minds away from our natural survival instincts.

One advantage to societal structures is that they can distill and deliver a sense of calm and safety that our minds are not naturally tuned for. We’re instead tuned for survival, an awareness of threats, cautiousness, a disposition towards heuristics of danger and assumptions. Pattern recognition and adaptation that keeps us safe and alive.

However, polite society intends to train away from these dispositions. Society allows for us to imbue a sense of safety in our lives and to convince us that we can let down our guards. Society says that we shouldn’t live in fear with an overemphasis on survival. Human minds that have developed with a sensitivity to external fear, as it turns out, are capable of so much more than just risk management. Outside of fear and survival, the abilities that human evolved with can actually look for beauty and complexity in places that allow us to survive better, a foundation that expands our survival from months, to centuries, and from an emphasis on the individual, towards that of the human race and our collective experiences.

Society is ultimately good, but quite unnatural