From Desire to Destiny: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis
The Role of Sex and Will-to-Live in Man's Fight for Survival and the Birth of Civilization
The Beginnings of Psychosexual Development
Lying outside of the boundaries of quotidian comforts are the badlands of existential dilemmas. It is a land far away from constructed fiction. Man is left to his own devices where he is forced to ascertain the realities of his mortality. His impulse to avoid death, a clear sign of sanity, is commonly expressed through the display of fear to perilous situations and a general prudence of one’s environment. Innovation and invention are common byproducts of this natural avoidance. Dating back to the Middle Paleolithic age, our earliest ancestors have already mastered the art of manufacturing all-purpose tools, including flint and rhyolite hand axes, in desperate attempts to derive quality food and maintain methods of protection from predators.
A myriad of projectile points.
However, above all of survival strategies that humans have mastered, there is one that stands matchless above the rest: Man’s innate drive towards the preservation beyond himself, that being; his desire to reproduce. This desire is Man’s final affront to his greatest enemy: death. Although the impulse of sex is an inherently instinctual process, it is also used to strategically aid in the development of clans, tribes, and even nations. Pro-natalist policies are not uncommon in modernity as humanity struggles to fight the inevitable shadow of non-existence. However, upon examining an individual’s proclivity towards reproduction, you will come to find that it is a process principally occupied by those populations yet still concerned with satiating physiological needs. The more an individual has succumbed to his material environment, one that is entirely removed from his or her metaphysical grandeur, greater is his or her drive to reproduce. The more Man struggles to survive, the greater is his or her drive to reproduce. This is because it is a prerequisite of survival.
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