More Wild Hearts Are Needed
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are – tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy – the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.” ~ Jay Griffiths
For some reason, our society likes to de-wild people. At younger and younger ages. For reasons that don’t quite make sense to me.
“Shut up and sit down, please!”
Most will learn to sit more quietly at their school and work desks, presumably learning and producing more. They are deemed brilliant. Those that do not are deemed troublemakers or misfits and left for societal dead.
But are the over-domesticated ones really learning and producing or is that an illusion? And are they happy?
Perhaps not as much as you might imagine. (more…)
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