P3

The conflict "between what we profess to be and what we are" rises soley from the development of civilization. Civilization demands sacrifices that restrict our natural aggressiveness, instictual tendencies, sexual desires and selfish gene. Our culture commands obligations from modern civilized man and holds that to maintain such a measure of structure- man must procure peace. However, this leads mankind away from itself - it's "tendency to aggression", it's "inertia of libido", it's temptations to gratify" and towards the denial of ourselves in a reality of civility and morality. Homo homini lupus is gone, man no longer preys upon man and this ultimatley creates an "absurd gap." Furthermore, in civilizations plight to control, man becomes a repressed creature. And, to deny man its freedom would cause much unhappiness to any truly aware man. So, mankind keeps in denial of his condition and attempts to stay in a state of satisfaction in his own darkness. Yet, no one can deny the powerful measure to which man has a natural capacity "to use sexually","to seize posessions", "to humiliate", "to torture" and "to kill". It is this selfish gene- coined by Richard Dawkins that so plainly achieves the nature between men. However, civilization tries to quell that relationship and ease nature's aggressiveness. But to deny and deprive the existence of "our aggressive tendencies in mankind" is in itself the gap between our professment of what we are and what we are.