Those who are childish and immature people call others childish and immature. A man scoffs at the sight of a boy playing with toys, then goes back to obsessing over his car, truck, or “sports utility” vehicle.

   Any fool can see the difference between a housecat and its feline counter-part in the jungle! Both have the same size and shape in body, but the housecat behaves like a kitten compared to the jungle cat. Domestication has placated its true nature.

   The housecat need not hunt, search for shelter, nor avoid predators. It will still play the game of territory and hierarchical supremacy, but the effort is wasted energy, as there is no meaning behind the act, no material gain. Everything it needs is provided for; it lives its own perceptual paradise. Yet its adolescence will always remain stunted, unwillingly trading growth for comfort.

   The crisis of the housecat is symptomatic of the modern human being. It, too, needs not to hunt, search for shelter, nor avoid predators. More wasted effort on territory and social supremacy… all the human needs, all the human wants is there for the taking. It never needs to see its dinner go through its death-throes before reaching the table. Never will it know what it takes to become an adult human being.

   The difference between the housecat and the modern human is that the human must WORK for all that it “owns”, making the dilemma all that more painful. Though equal effort is required for WORK as for SURVIVAL, the direction is misguided, leaving room for the being to remain a child for all of its sleeping day[ze].

   And as the last hunter-gatherers (the true nature of humanity) are wiped clean from the earth, any remnants of an adult human being are lost.