Humans aren't all the same. Like animals, they exhibit an astonishing range of personalities. Just as different animals have unique instincts and behaviours shaped by nature, so too do people manifest in varying ways influenced by their environment, upbringing, and natural predispositions. This isn’t science — it’s a personal lens I use to understand the wild range of people I encounter. In the animal world, domestication isn’t just about taming — it’s a genetic shift, shaped over generations. Like how women are encouraged to be kind and cooperative, and men to guard or dominate. Over time, habituated traits become genetically set. There are domesticated tame types, bred for gentleness, and domesticated aggressive types, shaped to distrust and control people. Then there are the wildtypes — those untouched by the shaping hand of civilisation. Habituation (social training) can lead to and mimic domesticated traits, but it isn’t the same — it doesn’t leave a genetic mark. Habituated a...
A blog of wild discussion, verse and rhyme relating to the observations of man.