THE HUMAN ANIMALS

Human beings are a version of upgraded animals. They have everything animalistic except with the ability to talk and exploit their environment. These abilities are not innate. They are taught hence secondary.

Freud was right. When a child is born, the Id is the most dominant. That Id is a trait that remains dominant in other animals even to old age. Human beings are trained to suppress their Id thus we are controlled by ego or super ego depending on your level of training. We are considered educated when we become tolerant, patient, and considerate of others’ place in life.

Unfortunately, when we get angry and fall back to the default mode, we are considered mad, gone barsak or beastly in action. Meaning we are animals with suppressed original instincts. And more often than not, we find ourselves real and not pretenders.

To be humane is taught. We are inhuman by nature. Without the fear of law and consequences borne out of stringent rules, actions like killing and even cannibalism would be the norm. More often than not, we commit atrocities in our minds that the leopard would actually execute in the jungle and get away with.

Man is a self caged animal. He fights to remain the reasonable species. Restraining itself to be worthy of living in the house and not in the jungle like its fellow animals. He has obligated himself to be of high class hence the heavy burden of restrain. He wants to control the earth and its dominion while even the animals in the jungle just do without rules.

Man is fighting its own population through pills and condoms, vasectomy and tubal ligation. These means nothing to the wildebeest who work so hard to increase their population.

Not because the lion and the crocodiles threaten their survival, its just normal. That man goes to school, the monkeys don’t care. That man is building roads and highways, the antelope careless. That man want to live in palaces, the lion is king but doesn’t consider himself one or worthy of a the gold tunnels.

Man is so animalistic in nature that if he doesn’t shave for days, he becomes as bushy as a cat.

Man is preoccupied with life after death. All that man does is posthumous. He sometimes suspend the life of the moment hoping to recover in the next life which is so full of uncertainty but belief. Elephants die and rot anywhere while man is seeking for a befitting burial.

Look here human animal, live your life. Nature will fill the devoid.

THE HUMAN ANIMALS

By Gen. Tito Okello Jr.