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
