Neutered but loved

We live on trails without the slightest notion of where we're stepping.

In my drifter phase, the feeling of freedom was belonging to no place, not being bound by rules. I've also been homeless, a backpacker, spent nights on park benches.

People only impose rules to the extent that they interact. The greater the intimacy, the more sophisticated the rules. The nobility calls it etiquette, families call it upbringing, couples call it commitments, schools call it curricula, and societies call it law.

With so many rules, the goal is to turn humans into pets. Just like neutered dogs and cats, kept to be "cherished," we follow rules to be accepted, to be loved. It's a source of relief and pride when a pet's neutering goes well. Phew, at least my cats won't cause any trouble. It's a source of pride when a child is well-behaved, contained. Isn't she lovely? And if we don't neuter, what then?

We neuter in order to live in society. Dogs and cats, so they don't fill the house and the cities with offspring that will be abandoned and disturb the order. And humans, so they don't turn into animals, disturb the order, and end up abandoned in penitentiaries. We neuter for everyone's good. Dogs and cats through their reproductive organs, humans through control of the mind, of instinct. Some to contain the population, others to contain barbarism and the population.

On one hand we defend the preservation of trees, and on the other we neuter those we love most, animals and children. Neuter to preserve.

If animals fall ill, you change the food, take them to the vet. If humans fall ill, you change the medication, take them to the psychologist, to the hospital, to the asylum. Neutered and domesticated animals, human or not, are easier to handle, to hold, to lead to the specialist.

There's no way to give nature back, no reversing the neutering, if we want peace.

Condemned to societies, condemned to families, condemned to limits, to rules. Dogs and cats eat and sleep, they stay quiet. Humans lose sleep, eat poorly, live restless with the feeling that something is missing. So they fill life with things, objects and subjects to occupy the holes left by the neutering. And with that, we built modern civilizations.

The end!