Primal Urges
June 27th 2007 06:26
It’s an old and ongoing conversation. The drive toward being a civilized human trumps the more base and primary movers of the psyche. These drives, such as sex and pleasure and feel good and ‘Ooh, ooh, no, not there”…can become quite disruptive to the decorum to which the collective ‘we’ has become accustomed. We are, after all, animals. Just not like those other, more beastly animals.
Crude, guttural, noisy, present in the moment, and unabashedly unabashed.
If those animals were human, they would be quite the violators of the proverbial norm. A belch here, some flatulence there. Vile curse words in your face, and repressed anger in response.
Oh yes. Until it, like many primal urges, seeps like water through the cracks of your very own domesticity. Perhaps the ‘success’ of a man or woman shall be based on the ability to subjugate the primal for the civilized.
Yikes!
I may be in a storm of domestic trouble and calamity. And you know trouble and calamity are quite contrary to order and taming. I’ve been disciplined many times, instructed to walk the line.
I never walk the line!
How prudent is it to focus most energy on repression and suppression if not denial of primal urges? Even as disruptive as they are? Is not such a process and intention a distancing of oneself from the very nature that one is? If so, how can one justify and rationalize and intellectualize the perpetuation of such?
I dunno…
Have I gone astray? To be cognizant of the way we humans in collective fashion have gone astray? You know, from the nature.
For better or for worse?
Let’s just say that there are times that I wonder of the wisdom of moving into our abstract brain-based “reason” at the expense of the very nature that supports and nurtures us from without and within. Us equals human. Human equals living, breathing co-creators of the life of which is lived. Living is today. Today is absent of tomorrow and hopefully not intoxicated by yesterday.
How much of your nature seeps through the cracks of your tamed and civilized being?
deorre
Crude, guttural, noisy, present in the moment, and unabashedly unabashed.
If those animals were human, they would be quite the violators of the proverbial norm. A belch here, some flatulence there. Vile curse words in your face, and repressed anger in response.
Oh yes. Until it, like many primal urges, seeps like water through the cracks of your very own domesticity. Perhaps the ‘success’ of a man or woman shall be based on the ability to subjugate the primal for the civilized.
Yikes!
I may be in a storm of domestic trouble and calamity. And you know trouble and calamity are quite contrary to order and taming. I’ve been disciplined many times, instructed to walk the line.
I never walk the line!
How prudent is it to focus most energy on repression and suppression if not denial of primal urges? Even as disruptive as they are? Is not such a process and intention a distancing of oneself from the very nature that one is? If so, how can one justify and rationalize and intellectualize the perpetuation of such?
I dunno…
Have I gone astray? To be cognizant of the way we humans in collective fashion have gone astray? You know, from the nature.
For better or for worse?
Let’s just say that there are times that I wonder of the wisdom of moving into our abstract brain-based “reason” at the expense of the very nature that supports and nurtures us from without and within. Us equals human. Human equals living, breathing co-creators of the life of which is lived. Living is today. Today is absent of tomorrow and hopefully not intoxicated by yesterday.
How much of your nature seeps through the cracks of your tamed and civilized being?
deorre
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