"Eagerness" is a good word to describe the male in pursuit of the female. Charles Darwin uses it in THE DESCENT OF MAN, which was published in 1879. It is still true.
Reflecting back over my own life, that eagerness actually precedes sexual maturity, being rooted in biology. The phrase "boys will be boys," is ultimately rooted and grounded in human biology.
We like to pretend that we humans are in charge of every aspect of ourselves; that we are consciously capable of subduing these "passions" or tendencies. That they, these human passions, have to be banked or regulated by law, custom, religion, education, and war, attest to their virility and to their insidious power.
Cosmologists describe the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity, as the principle forces that permeate the known universe. This may well be true, but human passion is right there, also, unconquerable and insistent, albeit maligned, and scoffed, by its bearers and carriers.
Men term human passions as: sinful or evil; unlawful or reprobate; gross or wanton; They have many names and negative attributions. Yet, for all of that, human passions, are the precise converse, the ever present partner, of : goodness and righteousness; of the lawful and the acceptable; of the meek and the mild; and yes, of the male and the female.
What can separate either from the other? Can height or depth? Can hardship or distress; nakedness or peril; war or peace? Nothing can separate the male from the female.
Each is immanent in its opposite; each passion is always in the other
Sunday, September 7, 2014
HUMAN PASSION
PASSION
"Eagerness" is a good word to describe the male in pursuit of the female. Charles Darwin uses it in THE DESCENT OF MAN, which was published in 1879. It is still true.
Reflecting back over my own life, that eagerness actually precedes sexual maturity, being rooted in biology. The phrase "boys will be boys," is ultimately rooted and grounded in human biology.
We like to pretend that we humans are in charge of every aspect of ourselves; that we are consciously capable of subduing these "passions" or tendencies. That they, these human passions, have to be banked or regulated by law, custom, religion, education, and war, attest to their virility and to their insidious power.
Cosmologists describe the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity, as the principle forces that permeate the known universe. This may well be true, but human passion is right there, also, unconquerable and insistent, albeit maligned, and scoffed, by its bearers and carriers.
Men term human passions as: sinful or evil; unlawful or reprobate; gross or wanton; They have many names and negative attributions. Yet, for all of that, human passions, are the precise converse, the ever present partner, of : goodness and righteousness; of the lawful and the acceptable; of the meek and the mild; and yes, of the male and the female.
What can separate either from the other? Can height or depth? Can hardship or distress; nakedness or peril; war or peace? Nothing can separate the male from the female.
Each is immanent in its opposite; each passion is always in the other
"Eagerness" is a good word to describe the male in pursuit of the female. Charles Darwin uses it in THE DESCENT OF MAN, which was published in 1879. It is still true.
Reflecting back over my own life, that eagerness actually precedes sexual maturity, being rooted in biology. The phrase "boys will be boys," is ultimately rooted and grounded in human biology.
We like to pretend that we humans are in charge of every aspect of ourselves; that we are consciously capable of subduing these "passions" or tendencies. That they, these human passions, have to be banked or regulated by law, custom, religion, education, and war, attest to their virility and to their insidious power.
Cosmologists describe the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity, as the principle forces that permeate the known universe. This may well be true, but human passion is right there, also, unconquerable and insistent, albeit maligned, and scoffed, by its bearers and carriers.
Men term human passions as: sinful or evil; unlawful or reprobate; gross or wanton; They have many names and negative attributions. Yet, for all of that, human passions, are the precise converse, the ever present partner, of : goodness and righteousness; of the lawful and the acceptable; of the meek and the mild; and yes, of the male and the female.
What can separate either from the other? Can height or depth? Can hardship or distress; nakedness or peril; war or peace? Nothing can separate the male from the female.
Each is immanent in its opposite; each passion is always in the other
