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>Yes, what is going on with people in this modern society, is everyone fully human?
Yes and similar setti's have happened before. Humanity or "humanhood" needs a thorough review once in a while. Jung said:
"Man is an animal that has gone mad. There are two ways out of this madness: he must become an animal again; or he must become greater than man."
Our key feature that puts us at odds with the entire Universe around us is our consciousness, our abstract mind. Being cursed with that gift, every human perceives himself as a world separated from the "outside", from a world of everything else than him.
This is of course a grandiose and intoxicating illusion, as proven by countless spiritual and religious discoveries. We are not an outsider, but an organ of Universe by which it observes itself.
This single axiom, if taught extensively to humans since small age, can have a potential to provide for serious moral improvement.
Back to your question. Yes, everyone is fully human just as before. We're just living in a time where great rethinking happens on every level of our being. A time of turmoil, uncertainty, anxiety. This time should be crowned with a philosophical breakthrough of proportions rivaling the onset of Christianity. I don't know the exact time it would arrive, but all of the ingredients are in the boiling pot already. Humans cannot live in a world lacking a belief system, they go mad. From this madness, they give birth to something new to believe in.
>What does being a human mean, or what should it mean?
Jung says it's to become yourself, to embody the transcendent Self. It's heavily influenced by Nietzsche, who said it's to transcend your mortal being with the guidance of Will. Christians say it's to unite with Christ in heavens, Jung considers Christ to be an embodiment of the Self archetype btw.
To be a human...Is probably the most thrilling thing to be in this universe. Can you compare the depths and rises of your own being to those of a cat, or a rock? Impossible.
We bear the heaviest load of all things - that is to be a thing that knows itself. Through us, the universe expresses its consciousness.
Our duty is to preserve this sacred, cursed gift, and persevere through the stars. Every living being from virus to us has as an imperative instinct, a towering will to survive and procreate no matter what. For us, this task is not something to obey to blindly, like an animal would.
We, as did our ancestors in their cold caves, have to preserve not but our physical being, but the bonfire of consciousness at any cost. This faint little fire of unknown matter is our biggest treasure and the single thing we should preserve for eternity. Without us, the universe will go deaf and blind.