Wild Urges

Wildness isn’t something we overcome. It defines us.

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Long before towns, agriculture, or the first hints of civilization, humans were scratching out lives for themselves in this world. In the hubris of being civilized, we consider those people lesser creatures. We generally think of those earlier versions of ourselves as either childlike innocents or ignorant savages wallowing in bloodlust and carnal abandon…