The war is won. Our inventions will continue to accelerate our development and we will soon pass far beyond anything now imagined. There is a difference between defeat and failure. Defeat is temporary and reversible, suffered at the hands of a more powerful or cunning opponent following real attempts to do battle with an external problem. Failure is final, results from personal inadequacy, a problem located within the individual.
Psychic illness is defeat disguised as failure.
The purpose of life is existence, to last as long and spread as far as it can. This requires the ability to pass through time as well as space, no easy task in a changing environment. Life needed a strategy to get from one time to the next, from point A to point B, while surviving relatively intact through changes of its environment. It needed to change as needed when needed, and to stay the same when needed. Life needed both stability and change, sameness and otherness, growth and perpetuation.