The Other "A" Word

The animalism beliefs of some tribes is a belief system based on the tangible reality around them, not some abstraction. This is much more genuine than modern beliefs.
There is something to be said for honesty, of people acting on true desires and feeling without a belief system to rationalize it.
The big lie is that man is something other than an animal. We may be more sophisticated, intelligent and more powerful than other animals, but we are not fundamentally different than any other life form in nature.
We may someday evolve into something better, but until that point we are still beasts.