Humans have a love affair with the dangerous. In fact, if it weren’t for this love affair, we as a species would not be where we are today.
Let me start off by defining what I mean by the word “dangerous.” Dangerous, for the sake of this article, will encompass physical, financial, social, emotional, and mental danger. How so, you ask? Read further and all will be revealed!
Humans thrive in the presence of danger. Not only do we thrive, but we excel! We progress. We survive. This primal instinct most certainly evolved from our ancient descendants who traveled day-to-day doing what they needed to survive. Over the centuries, this instinct evolved to manifest itself in different forms.
Take Alexander the Great, for example, a fierce warrior and brilliant strategist who toyed with this notion of the dangerous, the forbidden. He fooled around with physical, social, and mental danger regularly, even made it his conquest to do so and ended up shaping our world beyond measure. Where would minds of such caliber as Ben Franklin’s be if danger hadn’t seduced him? If he hadn’t famously flown a kite into a thunderstorm to see what happened? This great country of America wouldn’t even exist if the founding fathers and settlers who fought Great Britain didn’t have the same thirst for the theatrics of risk. Their courage to challenge the familiar, the status quo, would have never given rise to the unity that forged our country
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