Welcome to the Jungle

By Tim

“Welcome to the jungle it gets worse here every day
Ya learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play
If you hunger for what you see you’ll take it eventually
You can have everything you want but you better not take it from me“

Welcome to the Jungle by Guns ‘n’ Roses

In the English language when we wish to convey a situation that is outside the boundaries of what we consider to be civilization we often compare it to “the jungle”. The picture that forms is of a place that is wild and untamed by human hands, where only the strong survive and kill or be eaten is the only rule to the game. Human beings pretty quickly realized that the law of the jungle wasn’t terribly beneficial for the development of our species and developed what we think of as civilization and associated rules of civilized conduct to allow people to live together without smashing each other’s head in on a regular basis.

The trouble is that the conditioned expectations of civilized people don’t work in the jungle…and there are a fair number of our fellow men who reject the expectations of civilization altogether.

Let’s say that you see someone scattering …read more

Source:: Gun Nuts Media