Well put.
Lots of companies have a corporate mindset of everyone cooperating to crank out a product, but the nation, and indeed civilization itself, was mostly built through individual efforts to accomplish things. How many products were created by a group of minds that were huge failures or required a recall? Compare that to inventions or social observations by a single mind.
Sexist comment coming; I tend to find that women have a predilection for a failure to understand man's understanding and knowledge that nature, of which the wilderness is an extension, is cold and impersonal though filled with all kinds of wonders. You don't need friends. I know that sounds heretical, but you really don't. If you're satisfied with who you are, as was Proeneke, then you can meet and leave people as you please, and experience nature in its raw as you please.
To become even more high minded here it's basic philosophy that you have your own set of values. They are not dependent upon what others think.
And I think that's why females tend not to get males, because the female tends to be seeking for approval as part of her basic programming of finding a good mate for her security and that of her offspring.
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snowleopard
8 years ago
You bring up a very good point. Men, when stripped to their primal core, tend to live by three words: Provide, protect and procreate. The first two are often perceived by society to mean with others, or for others "provide for your family" "protect your wife". But any man thinking it through will realize that it's not necessarily true at all to have that apply to others or companionship. A part of our DNA is to provide and protect ourselves first.
Procreation, obviously cannot be done without a mate. But it's also not needed on a day to day basis for survival. Only over the course of a lifetime. Proenneke obviously wasn't intending on spending his entire life alone out in the wilderness. No man would.
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