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Edited by Rooks Slave:
4/26/2019 9:43:49 PM
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Considering the Werewolf: A symbol of beauty and pain
We all know the werewolf. It is a popular creature in both ancient and modern mythology. But why do we see it as horrible? As frightful and ravenous?
As a species fluid individual and self identified bear, I believe I can shed some light on the question of werewolf symbology. Forgive the essay response format, but this is an intellectual question that has occupied my mind for sometime.
Why do we perceive the Werewolf as evil?
All humans are animals. Unbiased science verifies this. People know it if they look into themselves. We are all part of nature's unitary collection of organisms. However, evolution has led man along an unfortunate path of development. Somewhere along his development mankind developed arrogance. He came to believe his instincts, which he termed "reason", made his self awareness implicitly better than the self awareness of other creatures. As man learned to speak, his awareness shifted farther and farther from other instinctual modes of animal awareness, and centered solely on speech. By this time, the divide between man and nature was complete. In his mind, man was god: Lord of nature and all things.
But still, the injustice of this separation lingers in the deepest recesses of every persona subconscious. It's why we feel drawn to the beauty of a spring day, and feel an inchoate thrill from a breeze laden with freshness. Within ourselves, we also fear ourselves, because we know the cruelty our arrogance justifies.
We are the Werewolf: neither animal and neither man. A thing trapped between two antithetical modes of existence. On one side is the animal, on the other the Man. One is at harmony with nature, the other in disharmony. One lives in accord with the precepts of nature, the other tramples upon them.
Man is the evil in the wolf. Humanity is the aberration which the Werewolf embodies. It is the symbol of our pride, arrogance, and destruction. It devours nature. Insofar as we are human, we are all of us werewolves. Creatures torn between nature's essential good, and humanity's imaginary glory. Mankind is the beast...
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3 Replies... No actually evolution has worked as intended, the strongest survive and continue to get stronger, in effect, man IS God over all the animals, we can change the light and darkness, we can level mountains, and delete millions of lives with the flip of a switch, we have a handheld device that can kill almost anything, as long as the bullet is big enough, it's not arrogance, it's simple observation, man IS above other animals, because of how evolution has worked, you can't be a bear because you are so far beyond it that you can't go back, no matter how hard you try... [spoiler]not a knockoff[/spoiler]
