Human and Natural

You would think that, after so many thousands of years, people would have got used to the rain by now. That they would have learnt to ignore it, learnt to live with it. But you still see people dashing for shelter. It seems that the natural offends people. It makes them feel uncomfortable.

We construct elaborate rituals what have been called our 'baser' functions, but why?

We like to feel that we are above and beyond the animals, the other animals. Our consciousness makes us self-conscious, makes us see how close we are to the others. It makes us see that the differences are only matters of degree.

We invent religions to give humans (but only of our own tribe) distinctions that separate us from the animals. We are apart, and those traits we do share with them: eating, secreting, sex, dominance conflicts and so on, are put into elaborate - the more elaborate the better - rituals and structures.

We create civilisations, structure, to formalise the rituals and put greater divisions between the man and the animal. The animal and the traits we all share with them are looked down upon and despised. We create distance, but still we all fall, for the base is us.