HW 52

I believe that companionship and building bonds and connections to one another is a survival skill that we must of inhabited. Even to this day, fame creates power and are often looked up to as the top of the food chain. Even under various social circumstances for example school, film industry, at work, etc. Being able to communicate to numerous people and gaining respect or admiration makes it much easier to cultivate comfortable social settings. People live off other people, as much as some of us thrive to be "independent" without external motivations and support, we become much weaker.

Especially in our society where religion is a great factor in many things, I find the concept of right and wrong to be quite overrated. Common sense and feelings as to ideas are much more honest and should be considered good, but in most cases they are not. Every country is enforced by some sort of religion that molds the culture and society. The United States is a mainly Christian nation and often use god as a reference. Therefore we have a clear view of what is righteous and what is not. Do we? No even what is said in the bible has numerous contradictions and can be seen through alternative perspectives.

Some such as the Ku Klux Klan basically see Jesus as a white supremacist, while other people may see Jesus through a different light. Christianity is the main religion in Korea, and they are most definitely not white supremacists. Though I'm sure religion was first made by humans to stabilize sanity, and an easier alternative to science. It also makes things much more difficult since there always are extremists who enforce religion on others causing conflicts. Religion can cause wars and misunderstandings amongst various cultures, but we still try to stand for it. Why?

I always were fascinated by how diverse the human species is compared to other animal forms. Most animals have animalistic instincts that they live by, but we live through cultivating large communities of diverse individuals. Each with their own lives, but we still find a way to reproduce without much struggle. It seems like our survival skills that we first lived inhabiting no longer has any effect in our life, but subconsciously it may be the reasoning to our decisions. Like the thing we call love, it may be nothing more than an evolved version of the instinct to reproduce a more complex version. We may be looking for passion or warmth through love, but they are not much more than hooks and baits to make us want to make babies.

On the other hand there is also sexual pleasure and motivation without any intentions to make babies, which is the case for most at young ages. What might this signify? Which animalistic instinct lead us to feel pleasure from sex? I believe that connections we make through our lives connect deeply to standards of survival as the top of the food chain. There is a deeper significance to why we love, why we make friends, why we hunger for power.