The wildness I am referring to is in terms of ‘nature’ and the usual, almost programmed, behavior of things. Man has a tendency to escape this definition due to his ability to exercise behaviors that contradict most basic instincts for survival and the normal essence of self-preservation. This ability is due in part to his imagination. It is the biggest blessing and curse. It causes man to contemplate alternative realities aside from that of basic survival. This imaginative, creative, unrestrained intention to decipher more meaning from basic observations and routine causes man to distort the fundamentals of the basic modes of survival.
Wild is untamed. Although there are stigmatic connotations, wildness is different from being chaotic- in my mind. Wildness is freedom from the restraints of preconceived guidelines or rules. Free from restraints and the tendency to hedge it into a generic pretty box for examination. Wildness in the sense I am referring to it, is outside of any preconceived notions or expectations. It is deliberate. It is intentional. It is manifested through self-preservation. Although man may not see the significance of ‘wild’ behavior, it is only imparted for the desperation of survival. Wildness is the desperate result of organisms thriving to survive. It is the observation of the encoded will within all living things, struggling to survive as they battle with external forces that do their best to suggest otherwise.
Man, on the other hand, who tries to decipher this behavior, misinterprets this wildness for something banal and harmful. Instead of seeing evil as the forces that fight against this will to survive, he mistakes the wildness with evil.
Man has something else to satisfy other than his basic physical needs. Man tries satisfying his spiritual needs. Once mans physical needs are met, he explores additional meaning. He contemplates beyond his needs. He cannot accept the life of being satisfied physically. He searches for other means and answers to survival on an internal, spiritual level.
Any wildness he denotes to his surroundings is a misinterpretation of the struggle of a will to survive on a physical level. When the struggle ceases to exist it is no longer wild, but civilized and tamed. Usually this is at a physical level, and in nature it is always the case as animals lack the comprehension for anything else outside the basic survival needs for food, reproduction and shelter.
The funny thing with man is this. Man still, despite every physical need that is met, thirsts for more. He struggles to survive on some level he cannot figure out. He tries satisfying every physical need until there is little he has to do or think about to exist. Man often becomes a drone, and allows his mind to atrophy as he becomes accustomed to being fed answers and routine. He no longer exerts effort to fill that abysmal void, becoming in essence an animal or sorts.
Deep inside, if he ever dare challenged it, apart from the basic survival needs, there would be the wild will to survive on a level that confuses him. On a plane only recognized as spiritual. Man tries figuring it out by searching for answers, digging deeper and deeper into obsessions, commitments, knowledge, technology, relationships, things, etc., only to come up empty handed. His answers leave him discouraged or unsatisfied. His imagination cannot be quenched. His thirst and hunger to survive on the deepest level of human survival, on the spiritual plane, goes unsatisfied.
Wildness. Mans first instinct is his physical survival. When men are living with the mentality where their number one concern is survival- than they are wild. We see this first hand by examining the aboriginals and natives. Those who have figured out to satisfy these needs with ease look down upon the struggle. We labeled them as wild. They were just lacking knowledge to come up with the means or system that continually provides for their physical needs. Unmet physical needs cause incredible pain. Once that system is discovered or mastered he is not finished or content. This just gives man the opportunity to further refine his understanding as he searches for answers that satisfy that imaginative thirst residing deep below. Man strives to end the pain that resides at a much more internal level, trying to satisfy the spiritual needs in order to stop that internal pain. It’s survival.
Wildness. The definition is man’s attempt to classify anything that struggles to meet its physical needs. Because a knowledgeable way free from that struggle is not observed, it is wild.
Man turns animal’s from wild animals into domesticated pets or livestock. Simply by providing for it’s physical needs does the animal cease to fight. They care for nothing else but for the ease of their survival. They will do anything. Trained pets are an example of this. Livestock for food is another. They give no though to anything but that need being met.
Man is different. And on this quest of survival, it has led him to far exceed any basic survival understanding or mechanism. Man takes the process of easing survival far past basic physical needs into realms of vast understanding of the thing around him. Thinking that by discovering more it will satisfy the burning thirst and longing for more.
It never works that way.
William Dare 