2019/07/10 Wolf Children and Childhood Ferality
What makes man different from an animal? We can point to opposable thumbs, our furless bodies or the fact we live in houses. These physical attributes of man avoid the root of the divide; man is conscious. Man is embarrassed. Man has a conception of oneself. The ego does spring from the womb with us since such complex ideas are overwhelming to our prematurely born minds. Psychologists agree that around the age of 2 a child sees themselves as an individual from their parents, as a separate ego. Before which we are seemingly unconscious beings, feral like a wolf. The incubates inside of them, developing slowly as they begin to see others as an ego in of themselves. Society civilises us, and we let go of our feral nature, our instinct and deep bond in favour of rationality and a plethora of bonds. We conceal our unconscious inner ookami in favour of our conscious persona which cannot truly understand and be deeply moved by another. Language enables us to understand one another yet simultaneously enables us to misunderstand one another. The lone wolf, howling atop a mountain, rushing with primal instinct, rejects duplicity, embraces simplicity, operating on a wavelength the modern radio can't receive. Rejection of cushiness is antithetical once you have tasted from the tree of knowledge. Only the child, the stem cell of possibility, can chose their path.