In the wild, the best response to dangerous circumstances is often not to run but to assume a profoundly attentive identity, to pay attention to what seems to threaten and, in that attention, not to assume the identity of the victim. Through being equal to fierce circumstances we make ourselves larger than the part of us that wants to flee, while not losing its protective understandings about when it might be appropriate. Besides, there is rarely one discrete identity who needs to run.
