I chat with my friend Ed on occasions and we talk about how human beings run themselves and he has a phrase, that we are ‘gathering nuts’. The animal instinct to protect oneself and survive by making sure our food sources are protected, that we are warm and can maintain a modicum of health. That is why society is structured as it is. Why we naturally circle round one leader, why we don’t want to rock-the-boat and just get through what we ‘have’ to do.
The more animal observations we make the more animal we appear to be, which is obvious. It isn’t an appearance. We are animals. Our emotions, wants, desires, needs are all perfectly animal. But our high functioning brains are very much working towards what an animal becomes when it is trying to be ethical.
The tensions are obvious.