The Fifth Science

by Exurb1a

Humans must be the only animals who build zoos for themselves.

With consciousness brings morales. Something wild animals do not posses. We create these mental zoos that hold us back from living the way we truly want.

There is an innate nature to each being, built into the very architecture of his mind, and Berkhamsted’s nature was predisposed to the blackest strand of worry. Here he was then, in love, loved, sharing a private mental plain with this divine human, his wife, with whom all anxieties and longings and deliberations might be freely shared. If he were to break down like a baby, even, she would no doubt coddle him until he slept and he'd wake rejuvenated and ready once again to do battle with the great injustices of the world.