<p>“Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves?”</p>
<p>In today’s current world, a deluge of fake personalities, feigned interests, and even false body parts has left society cast beneath a mask. One may grow so accustomed to the lies they set forth, that they subsequently loose sight of who they truly are. Luckily, through the understanding of certain fields of academia, and various forms of literature, we can see how this dilemma may be resolved.</p>
<p>Cultural Anthropologist Jack Wikstow was one of the first “westerners” to come into contact with the tribes along the Amazon River in South America. The field of Anthropology is often scoffed at by it’s more acclaimed counterparts; Biology, Sociology, and Psychology, but it is through the study of other human beings that we learn about ourselves. Dr. Wikstow was able to bare witness to a functioning society which was utterly ignorant of western technology and our own cultural niches. However, Dr. Wikstow soon discovered that the tribal villagers were virtually a mirror image of citizens in the United States. Over the years, he watched the villagers steal, fight, grow self-conscious, and lie. Perhaps through his data we can elucidate that our current behaviors are not the products of television or poor upbringings, but rather innate urges which we cannot help but act upon.</p>
<p>In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the protagonist, referred to as “the savage,” finds himself in a new world of which he does not belong. This new world is devoid of religion, emotion, and love. Never being an extraordinarily driven or religious individual back in his old home, the savage suddenly finds himself in an emotional thrall, overcome with divinity and love. The new world shuns him for his behavior, but the ridicule his faces only fuels the savage to grown more in touch with his own morals and beliefs.</p>
<p>We are all human beings on this Earth. Our DNA is 99.9% identical, and some may go as far as to claim we are all one grandiose conglomerating mass, with each individual action affecting the whole. When we delve into the mind of a fellow human being, we are getting a glimpse of our own self.</p>