primitive humans or not?
Civilized Instincts or not?
By Zeynep CEYHAN
Instincts are a natural way of behavior to certain situations. A natural way of acting and thinking, a natural propensity of a kind. Which is in this case, humans. Every human being has animal instincts. These instincts are inherited in our sub consciousness from the early years of Homo* evolution. Even though it seems like we don’t have these particular connections with our ancestors we actually do. We use our instincts sub-consciously in every decision we make in our lives. Ultimately they effect us all the time in many different ways. However they are smoothened in time by humans evolvement and our environmental changings. One of the main factors on smoothening our instincts is the civilizations itself. Actually the only barrier between us and our undomesticated, primitive and more natural selves is civilizations and societies. Whom are constantly ‘taming’ our wild side by several co-factors, such as: laws, religion and even manners & morals . Although the civilizations ‘Tame’ our inner animal like behaviors, it’s not effective for long time periods. Moreover, astonishingly it’s very easy to regress back to our primitive and savage state, once we get out of the civilization and go to a more natural place. Thus it will be accurate for us to say that civilizations and societies keeps us from reverting back to our primitive and savage selves.
Charles Darwin’s evolution theory states that : the successive variations that becomes an advantage for the animal, will pass on to it’s off springs but the ones that do not, will slowly assimilate or be dematerialized. Corresponding to the data that we have, we will achieve an argument: Civilized societies suppresses our inner wild side and this side of ours will start to vanish or change slowly. However this statement refers to a full evolution of a specific kind. This takes thousands of thousands of years to happen and the human beings today
By Zeynep CEYHAN
Instincts are a natural way of behavior to certain situations. A natural way of acting and thinking, a natural propensity of a kind. Which is in this case, humans. Every human being has animal instincts. These instincts are inherited in our sub consciousness from the early years of Homo* evolution. Even though it seems like we don’t have these particular connections with our ancestors we actually do. We use our instincts sub-consciously in every decision we make in our lives. Ultimately they effect us all the time in many different ways. However they are smoothened in time by humans evolvement and our environmental changings. One of the main factors on smoothening our instincts is the civilizations itself. Actually the only barrier between us and our undomesticated, primitive and more natural selves is civilizations and societies. Whom are constantly ‘taming’ our wild side by several co-factors, such as: laws, religion and even manners & morals . Although the civilizations ‘Tame’ our inner animal like behaviors, it’s not effective for long time periods. Moreover, astonishingly it’s very easy to regress back to our primitive and savage state, once we get out of the civilization and go to a more natural place. Thus it will be accurate for us to say that civilizations and societies keeps us from reverting back to our primitive and savage selves.
Charles Darwin’s evolution theory states that : the successive variations that becomes an advantage for the animal, will pass on to it’s off springs but the ones that do not, will slowly assimilate or be dematerialized. Corresponding to the data that we have, we will achieve an argument: Civilized societies suppresses our inner wild side and this side of ours will start to vanish or change slowly. However this statement refers to a full evolution of a specific kind. This takes thousands of thousands of years to happen and the human beings today
References: : 1. The oldest homo sapiens – frank brown- 2005 2. Gabriele bartz, Eberhard König, (Arts and Architecture), Könemann, Köln, (2005), ISBN 3-8331-1943-8. The laws were based with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye" depending on social status. 3. By Arthur Schopenhauer, circa 1851 4. William Golding- Lord of the flies