The Drummond Diaries 10/9/72 - On Back to Nature & Aggression: It wasn't civilization and free market business that caused man to be aggressive; these things were caused BY man's aggression. There is an inverted reasoning among the various denominations of social utopians that would have us believing in some implausible world of the past where simple nature folk tended cattle and fished in the shade all day. Then along comes an evil called "society" that forces its will on the surprised inhabitants, who then become aggressive and try to shake off this burden. In this scenario, "society" becomes an abstraction, a sloganeer's selling point, and they make that abstraction sound like some Grendel-like horror stalking the fens of the human mind in search of fears to prey on.
But it was man himself who placed that load on his own shoulders in an attempt to control those very aggressions that, unchecked, threatened to destroy him. The story is an old one, and modern society is simply a new backdrop for this latest rerun of a misunderstood idea. That man is still incapable of controlling his primal desires is simply more evidence of the fact that he has not matured, and maybe never will.
Nevertheless, this seedling of an idea persists, almost like a permanently imbedded collective memory. The "Garden of Eden" story. Avalon. Isle of the Blessed. The catalog of places that never were seems endless.
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