Intuitive fred888: Wildness

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Wildness

As I was growing up in the 1950s there was still a lot of wild places left to visit and to some degree people were also more primal then than now, because much less was known about psychology generally than now. So, people understood themselves in some ways less than now but in other ways people understood themselves much better than they do now too.

As wildness (wild regions with no people much where animals can live wild still) disappears over much of the world, people become stranger in new ways. Being able to still walk into wild areas in your own country makes a really big difference to the psychology of individuals. It also makes a big difference in how people tend to treat each other too.

People are actually domesticated wild animals. You can sort of compare human beings to being like our domesticated dogs and cats to some degree. If you take any animal and train it to be one way, then set it loose in the wilds it soon will be eaten (unless it is a really big and fierce dog, or a very wily cat that knows how to take care of itself). To some degree this would also be true of humans who are overly domesticated if released alone in the wilds too.

I was lucky to be trained by a father and a grandfather to walk into areas and never get lost. I was trained to as a boy to always look for landmarks and on longer trips to read maps. The more one travels over the world the more one still needs to know maps and to have access to maps in a language you can read.

You might say to me, "Well. I can GPS it with Google maps on my Iphone." Well, that doesn't work a lot of places because either there is no cell reception there or it is the wrong kind to have Google maps work. Or if you go to another country often even if you have an international smartphone unless you go to a cellular company at the airport you arrive at in that country your phone won't work at all there. (This recently happened to me in South Korea) where I was told my phone would work in South Korea. Yes. It is capable of working but won't unless I buy a South Korean Service and put a special chip in my phone.

So, looking for wildness you might find wildness in the Western United States a lot or in Canada or in Alaska. But, most places on earth Wilderness has been gone mostly for some time now.

So, I worry about people who are growing up where there is no wilderness at all. What are they going to do?

I guess they will have to find another way to be and to survive.

If you were wondering why I was thinking this way tonight I just watched about 3 episodes of "The Legend of Mick Dodge" who is someone who has lived in the wilds in the U.S. for 25 years now. So, if you are interested in knowing how to be comfortable in the wilds and how some people still actually live there all the time, this might be an interesting program for you to watch.

The Legend of Mick Dodge | National Geographic Channel

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National Geographic Channel

Nov 12, 2013 - 25 years ago, Mick Dodge walked away from the modern world, leaving civilization behind to live alongside nature's wonders in the Olympic ...

‎Episode Guide - ‎Forest Under Siege - ‎Mick Mansion - ‎Meet Mick Dodge

The Truth about the Legend of Mick Dodge: Hoh Rainforest ...

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Jan 25, 2014 - Case and point: Mick Dodge. The Legend of Mick Dodge, currently airing on NatGeo on Tuesday Nights takes what could be an amazing ...