There is something wild in each of us.
In everything that breathes there is something to tame. Children eat with their hands first. They crawl before they walk. They spit before they speak. They scream before they write. If it were natural for these activities to reverse in order it would be so.
If these, and other, natural behaviors were left alone without construct or criticism, the child would be deemed antisocial, feral, wild, or deviant. Each of these terms are different ways to say someone is “different.”
Each of them are labels given by the majority of a group to describe the minority. Like every other instance of similar labels, they are slurs and judgmental in nature.
From urinating in the woods, which is fair to say nearly every man and a good many women have done freely, to fist fighting, there are very wild compulsions in being human.
We are taught, molded, and formed into creatures who neglect their wildness.
We do this to gain acceptance into society. What is society? There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of definitions which can be given. All I know for sure is that society is a product of man. It is designed to be the foundation of all desires.
If one desires to have thirty subordinate wives there is a society for him. If another wishes to bind another in slavery, there is a place for them.
Within each society is a set of rules, morals, ethics, values, or mores. These standards are designed to promulgate the core desire of its society.
The American society prefers a suit to jeans and a clean face to a scruffy one. We cover ourselves from head to toe in manners, perfumes, and clothing masking our true nature from each other.
In our most intimate relationships, these carnal boundaries are crossed time and time again. This leads to a deeper love and understanding between us than otherwise possible.
Passion is wild.
Our efforts suppress our wilderness and our wildness and dilutes passion. We cannot forget that it was an unbridled passion for the freedom to express and protest which led to the greatness of America. Countless mobs formed at the dawn of our independence. Instances of tar and feathering and royal officials ridden out of their homes on rails attributed to the passionate atmosphere surrounding our revolution.
This passion, this wildness, derived from the lessons learned from centuries in the wilderness give definition, meaning, and pride to our nation.
Anthony Sadler 