people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to
your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:
- Befriend
- Tell story
- Make Thing
- Investigate
- Share knowledge
- Laugh
- Sing
- Dance
- Empathize with
- Create
we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands
your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way
~“Your primal instincts are not bathed in blood.”
My god this is beautiful. Such a refreshing change of pace to the constant glorification of instinctual human violence.
Primal Human Instinct pack also includes bonus instincts such as:
- imitating weird noises made by other animals
- playing with water
- the urge to eat anything brightly colored and jelly-like
- touching things that look like they will move in a funny way
- seeing faces in literally everything, including toast
- jumping up to see if you can bap the top of that doorway
- saying ‘ow’ when something unexpected happens, even if it doesn’t hurt
