Society has been evolving long before humans have, as any anthopologist will tell you. Bonobo chimps, gorillas, and many other simian creatures form communties, trade sexual favors for protection, form and break alliances, lie, cheat, steal, murder, rape, and base families and communities on the rule of force, which is many times less symbolic and more brutal in its enforcement. The breath of Humwawa before his name was ever uttered.
A flower or a piece of fruit are examples of enflamed reproductive organs.
Most people enjoy a fresh kill. Be it u.s.d.a. select beef or cut roses.
Television, movies, and computer monitors are flashing images at you at about 24 times a second. If it's much slower than this, such as 12 times a second, you see the flicker in the images. It looks like real life because your brain is connecting the images it gets in time to create a seamless reality from a series of unconnected images. Basically, the screen is sneaking the next frame by you while you watch it faster than your brain can catch it. If you stop watching TV and movies and visual media of all kinds for long enough and then see them again, you will notice the constant flickering all around you in modern life. It can be so overwhelming as to induce panic attacks. You are not crazy, you are simply reacting to a brutally overstimulating false reality. This is the stirring of the watcher at the gate.
