<p>What do you think this topic will be about?
</p><p>Take a pause and think......
</p><p>Ever heard the saying Humans are social animals? What's the difference between being a social animal and a social beast?
</p><p>Well here's a truth steering every one of us in the eyes, we have a beast that lives within us, yes, you have a beast waiting patiently to break out left unchecked. The devil has long been blamed for humanity's darkest actions, often becoming the scapegoat for our own worst behaviors. After all, it's easier to point fingers at something or someone who can't defend itself. Here and there we hear news of people who attacked innocent victims with no prior history of violence on record, model citizens falling apart with one act done to them leading to the awakening of the beast that existed within the so-called social animal.</p><p><img src="https://www.twocents.space/media/inline_insight_image/night-tiger-beast-hd-wallpaper-preview.jpg" alt=""><br></p><p>This beast has plagued society in so many ways than one, across Africa and beyond, it comes in various names such as slavery, trafficking, human sacrifice, manslaughter, rape, xenophobia, etc. The list goes darker and darker, no one could imagine growing up only to have the instinct to kill and destroy, we know not what to say, it so seems the instinct has always been there.
</p><p>Push a social animal to the wall and you will see the beast dwelling within. Some say "No, I can't do that", well I will only meet you with a philosophical quote from Socrate "Man know thyself" a level of self-awareness that many are guilty of not having.
</p><p>The society is a mob of emotionally manipulate-able beasts waiting to be used at every and any point, the truth no longer a thing because a well-painted mirage of deception has been fed to their hungry beast giving enough strength to crush skulls and shatter hearts when the deed is done the beasts leaves the social animal back into its abode, reality becomes hideous, guilt becomes the stone that crushes their heart with no place to hide they seek for salvation, well maybe they did, maybe they did not and died in the pursuit of that salvation.
</p><p>Know this, the complexity of this world is enough to create a beast within you, but only you have the power to keep it in check, we don't control what happens to us all, but we do control the next cause action.
</p><p>Sorry the devil didn't do anything, You did this.</p><p>
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The Beast Within
By
Godwin Erite