A Response to Doris Lessing's "Group Minds."

A Response to Doris Lessing’s “Group Minds.”

Human beings are born naturally dependent upon one another. In fact, in order for a baby to survive and thrive in its first few years of life, it needs the constant support of other humans. Yet, even as we mature and grow wiser in our years, we do not gradually become independent from one another rather we become interdependent. In the course of our lives we will form many relationships built on a give-and-take basis with our family, friends, community, and culture. Humans have become so accustomed to this because we are biologically designed to live, play, grow and work in groups. In fact, just as Doris Lessing said in “Group Minds,” very few people enjoy being solitaries, and they are constantly looking for groups to belong to. We are social creatures, which automatically empowers us with the strength to join with others to create something stronger, more adaptive and more creative than any individual, the group. Lessing...