Know yourself.

Before you read this, please understand that I am a man and can only approach life honestly from a male's perspective. I have no idea what it's like to be a woman and will never pretend too.

A strange phenomenon has taken place in the "civilized" world. Our technology has evolved & advanced at a rate that dwarfs our own biological evolution/development. Think back to 1950, television was brand new (although it was actually invented in the 20's), a modern marvel. There were people then that believed television transmissions were caused by witchcraft. Fast forward 60 years to our world where more information than the total content of the entire world's libraries is literally traveling through the ether and we have the ability to access it instantly.
There's a catch, biologically were pretty much just smarter cavemen. Our body's are still wired the same way they were however many thousands/millions of years ago and or brains still obey the same reward systems they did when we were stalking antelope with spears. We try to deny it, ignore it, and replace it, but it's still deeply embedded in our DNA. Somewhere along the line, we decided to believe that the tools we use to live our modern lives have radically transformed our genetic history. Here lies our dilemma.
Vegetarians, vegans, and animal rights activists may argue this point but science proves that there is a "thrill of the hunt" reward principle that is at work in the human brain. Due to the fact that in the modernized world, most people buy their food at some sort of market we have literally diverted that particular desire for primal pleasure to other areas of our lives. The problem is that there is no replacement. Men are wired to release aggression through acts of violence, there is no disputing that. How one handles the inevitable urge is key. Sex, and sports are probably the two most used modern methods of release. This is why we see intricate fighting arts and techniques all throughout history. Today, in our modern society, the natural masculinity of males is under attack and losing badly. Even sanctioned (and necessary) hunting and fighting between two consenting professionals is deemed barbaric and men who take joy in their natural masculinity are looked at as standing in the way of progress. Instead of equal rights between men and women we now desire equality between sexes which is ridicules. Nature just doesn't agree with that ideology. We see examples of misguided aggression being released with tragic results constantly. Look at many of the perpetrator's lives closely and you will find with consistency, lives where the natural male instincts were repressed and replaced by things like the internet, video games, and porn. Their reward system was being manipulated.
I posted the video below today because it depicts a man that biologically is no different than I am but by choice, has decided that his natural urges and instincts are truer than the ideologies that currently permeate our culture. The part where he talks about the decline of civilization being linked to the replacement of the tribal hunter-gatherer unit by the farming town structure is fascinating. I'm in no way suggesting that we all go out into the wilderness and turn the clocks back a few hundred years. I don't hold the keys or know of any fix-all solutions to society's manifold ills. I just hope that as we let go of the steering wheel and let technology guide more and more areas of our lives, we begin to understand who or what we really are.