A  cautious perspective  reveals that   our fundamental temperament  is not an  individual or collective consciousness or any semblance of what we would call a mind.  We are savagely  unreasonable, scarier than Rosseau could  fetishize.  We are not engineered to be benign enthusiasts of nature.  We are Nature which appears to be Aggression.   If another inhabitant of this solar orbit only loses millions before we pause in its extinction, it is rare, and lucky. 

Primates have proven themselves the preeminent predators. There are hundreds of violent primate species whose engineering is 99.5% identical to ours.  Were they designed for matriculation at our finest universes or like W are they just misfortunate sideroads to progress.  My guess is that the monkey and W are closer in worldview to us  than we would like to believe.



We have no model or boundary to understand the limits of our own barbarity for the child from birth raised "free" is an unknown quantity.  Yet that true freedom comprised all of us for at least ten months.


It is a powerful memory.



Countless  species like bees, grazers or fish, have profited  from action as a group so to curb our own berserk, amoral impulses, our homo sapiens species has likewise developed mirroring media and labor disciplines to channel and structure our shameless depravity. 
 
And then hounded by an opportunistic howling organic soup which outweighs  the fragile lever on our own inhuman relish, we  anthropomorphize gods, dogs, cars, statues, ad infin. in order to concoct  a cuddly neighborhood.  We were born feral and whatever remains of that personality, after the layered behavioural modification of society, grinds out the compulsions underneath each of our personae.  Just ask Quentin.

Intellectual primates like Hegel and Marx hoped that history was Spirit moving through time, a fraudulent guess in our relative dimension where there are no complete theories or definite explanations.

Grasping religionists like W in desperation struggle with themselves,their children, others, and with their motives, for to their disgust they were born as base as the mantis, shark, or the greatest meateater.