![]() You know, like Pilates and discos and whatnot. So it stands to reason that, if we're going to impose our own neuroses on our pets, they should at least get to have the same fun we have. ![]() In dogs, the trade-off is more or less the same (admit it, dude, your dog is neurotic). The conflict that our competing desires for the security of society and the freedom of the wild creates, then, is what makes us all so fucking crazy. ![]() In a Freudian sense, domestication is a pretty steep trade-off: For human beings (we call our domestication "civilization"), we get the benefits of safety, security and society, the comfortable pleasure of staking out some degree of order in an otherwise chaotic, dangerous world - the price, of course, is our freedom, or what Freud called our "id," that wild, primal part of us that begs to rape and pillage.
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