Fight or Flight

There is a polarity to animal magnetism programmed by each being according to the sequences of its earliest experiences. Attraction to others is a variation of the most elemental instinct for continued existence: to survive as an individual by eating the attraction or as a species by procreating with it.

Repulsion between entities is required for attraction to have any value whatsoever in the dynamics of quality that life is. Repulsion occurs when proximity of one entity to another elicits flight to prevent being consumed or disgusted. Competition over food and avoidance of being food often result in the fight response.

Some species diet on such abundant food there is no reason to fight each other for it and thereby find advantage in communal cooperation for both protection from their predators and gaining of their food.

Once humans had gained advantage over all their predators through the use of fire, shelter and weaponry, their access to more abundant food not only led to the biological inevitability of increased population but its spread throughout earth’s habitable lands just to maintain comfortable distance from tribal competitors for what food there was.

Upon the advent of totalitarian agriculture’s practice of replacing vast swaths of wilderness with man’s preferred foods, only farmers were required to understand man’s natural relationship to the biology of the land while the large majority collected around the processed food depots in never before experienced crowding.

Any remaining concious biological connection of these newly civilized town folk to the natural stage upon which their daily lives played out was dissolved when they became convinced of the myth that all of nature was created especially for them by an entity beyond the natural universe upon whose worship depended their welfare.

The modern inheritors of this usury-justifying myth are beginning to awaken to its fallacy as their abusive stewardship makes life a poisoned, boiling hell on earth from which their prayers for a heavenly afterlife seem the only hope of rescue.

I find such little attraction to and so much disgust with civilizations that operate on the “fact” of such a mythological premise that it begins to seem like I’m painting myself into a feral corner at the border with indigenous wilderness as I witness “western civilization” convert or destroy every planetary shred of symbiotic concern for the nest in which it shits its industrial indigestibility vainly attempting to achieve their heaven on earth.

Flight is one method of disappearing to avoid predation. Some beings change color to disappear into the background or at least appear not to be food. Some beings freeze to avoid being noticed. Being a species without a predator species, mankind often escapes the predation and disfunction within its own society by vicariously escaping into the fantasy world of human creation much as opossums and armadillos feign sleep.