Everyday life presents a gravitational force of such magnitude that I often forget that I am a physical object similar to the gravitational field of the planet, and in accordance with my slopes I break the balance and want to lay it on the ground like a simple stone. And also, as I continue to review books and ideas, obsessed with meeting the topic to feed this column each week, I forget that I am a species animal homo sapiensan older primate of the hominid genus, whose next son he is homo and here is the difference sapiens. And it’s not like I’m ignoring the commands my body is giving me, how to come or sleep, breathe or digest; but yes, I generally have a loftier idea of myself, that the more it makes me forget, it obliterates the dull fact that I am an animal.
Yes, an animal with a set of instincts that allowed my kind to embrace life. However, as a human, these instincts – which are nothing more than the mandate of my natural nature – are modified by my ability to say “no” and reorient my innate instincts to proper human social behavior: just as every animal feeds me by responding to my survival instinct, but I do it with cubiertos and try to attach myself to the platillos I enjoy in restaurants that allow me to pay; The reproductive instinct that makes me have sexual desires is also filtered by a series of moral conventionalisms that prevent me from jumping like a chimpanzee and fulfilling the mandate of biological perfumes called pheromones. The procreative instinct, which manifests itself in its raw form as bodily desire, just like a person enters an atmosphere so sophisticated that it turns into romance and even poetry.
We are the only animals that invented poetry, the art of seduction, the qualities of good conversation, sympathy and a way to finally get the sexual satisfaction that a chimpanzee can easily get by toasting, attacking. In short, the alembic of what we have turns the mere reproductive instinct into love, or at least a consensual relationship as it currently is.
But let’s get to the main idea: everyday life “day to day” (as we call them today) hides the truth behind our animals. Although certainly one of the alien animals, unlike the others, only ours can go against nature and act against nature: an example of this is the sale of feet, which in the past were imposed on the bends of little girls to prevent their feet from growing; Another, cranial deformation practiced by the ancient Mayans. We can also refuse to come. Limiting nature in human beings is possible; Even interrupting your course has negative consequences that can lead to your death. The tone of voice for political reasons may seem respectable; selling shoes in exchange for reasons that are: “aesthetic” or to ensure the satisfaction of women seems to me to be definitely abhorrent.
Unlike nature, it is clearly unnatural. However, what human beings are in the strict sense is not what nature is about our God, but what we care about what our God is, we are the only species that can be said to be with its effect, and therefore in a literal sense can be decided to be supernatural: superlative “above” nature.
However, we cannot suppress the natural, even if still, the animal in us follows. A very clear example is violence, I am not proud of the violence that I am prepared for, which in my life is absolutely animal, even if it is empowered by technology, nor of the violence that is practiced in an animal way in the attacks on women, their actors, in my opinion, have not reached the appropriate human level… I am talking about violence, about immobile violence that we transform as humans: to the “ritualized violence” that appears in sports as anthropologists, as anthropologists.
We present a short rodeo that will allow you to better understand this idea: violence against animals is done in two directions: against other species and against the same species. In the one case violence is to feed itself and in the other to establish order in the group, these two forms of violence are evolutionary reasons: so the species that have managed to survive have converged. In these cases, I am interested in intraspecific violence, which is directed by members of the same species: we will review the first of them, without asking the moral gafas, simply as a “survival action”: the greatest force is needed to guarantee the preservation of its genus, and in this way to make it possible for the species to persist at the top. Violence is also used by instinct against group members who are different from the majority, are hostile or attack the difference also to ensure the survival of the species.
There is also intraspecies violence homo sapiens; but if it has been ritualized through humanity: no physical force is enforced anymore, but political force (we must not take into account the complexity of factors that this implies), it is ritualized violence: through a series of rules (may be legitimate or not) someone can and will send. The same thing happens with the violence that separates us from the group: our institutions are associated at a certain period of life with a set of rights and concerns that we classify at that time and according to the results define the quality of each individual, of course different results are excluded.
This ritualized violence is what hides the component that we cannot bypass, the instinctive violence that we represent, we cannot forget that even though we are very sophisticated animals, we follow ourselves by being animals: we have a natural basis on which we are properly human: the supernatural that we are.
Now the new morality: “political correctness” seems to overlook this basic nature by over-regulating some of the practices that directed violence: sport, humor, circus… but analysis of these key points will tend to lead to further confrontation. This is getting too long…
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