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HIS69-227 Animal Man
Animal Man
HIS69
(same as MP-137)
HIS69-227
Chad Stuart
(HIS69227)
$2.25
Foreword
“Man,” said Arnold Gehlen, “is by nature a jeopardized animal.”
There exists proof that African Australopithecines first invented stone tools and then proceeded to kill his fellow man with them.
There is further evidence that the first ancient man to use fire, the Peking Man, used his knowledge to roast for dinner not only game but his peers.
Indeed, Konrad Lorenz, outstanding naturalist, has even suggested that modern man has a measure of aggression bred into him for which he has no adequate outlet but violence.
And, examining the history of our world, in which we are constantly confronted with man’s killing of man, it is very easy to believe that what Professor Lorenz suggests is true.
It is, also, easy to come to the conclusion that man, unlike his fellow animals, kills for reasons other than survival. Because, in his short life span on earth, he has managed to bring hundreds of animal species, including his own, to the brink of possible extinction. Aside from killing animals such as the rhinoceros for sport, he has killed thousands of birds for feathers to decorate hats; he has killed ostriches, reptiles, tigers, and leopards for skins, even though he has long since outgrown his real need for hides to keep him protected from the elements.
Man, who usually responds easily to a variety of psychosexual stimuli, is, perhaps, more susceptible to manipulation via sexual means than woman.
And, among man’s large variety of sexual stimuli, as pointed out by Kinsey in his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, are situations with aspects of violence inherent within them. A good many men, for example, are turned on by the idea of punishment, near accidents, skidding cars, revolvers being shot, big fires, heights, falling—and confrontation, whether real or imaginary, with wild animals.
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