Wolves are always bad guy in tales, people like to create some words describe them: greed, brutal, crafty and no mercy. And in other hand, people was envy them, imagine their own evil activies like an evil creature could break all the chain, and harm others without feeling. They called themslves as wolf gang when watch striptease, titled a video game as the wolf among us, if somebody do a massacare in public by his own, newspaper called him lone wolf.
So when I got this book, I just thought it’s another book about how wolf brutal and wild, how badass they are and boring alpha/beta type shit. But its author, Elli H. Radinger, as a woman who observe wild wolf for more than 25 years, give me the truth never same as the story said.
The wolves are the most stigmatized creature in our culture, in fact, they’re never greed, brutal, only a hunter or a sheeper could hate them, because they’re so smart and talent. They trust each other in group, helping their elder, never abandon their group member. The wolves group is welcome to accept new comers, even their enemy’s wolf children.
There’s never have these alpha/beta/omega shit in the wild wolves, that class system was only happened in the zoo, yeah, a hell made by human itself and then claim they found a new nature law to teach the real male society. Ironically, when an ‘alpha’ male try to use these logic to deal with wolves, they always failed and freaked out by them. The wolf is gentle, generous, and have responsbilty to their group, not allow somebody rule their group only by force.
This book also mentioned woman’s connection with wolves, in author’s opinion, the wolf and woman is the same. They have to abandon all the rules was domesticated by male(obey, step back, kind), if they wanna found their own nature mind. In nature, woman will have strong mind, healthy body, and the special healing power for family.
After read this book, it make me think. Thinking about a video game who got the most disput on Internet before covid-19. The last of us part II, I mean, of course, it’s full of incredibly superficial identity politics bullshit same as neil’s twitter. But, after I finished this book, I realized I can in other view of TLOU II, the whole storyline of ellie, is it something as the book said, a woman tried to follow the male’s domesticated logic: you have to the revenge Abby. When she tried to step back, she feel guilty about it and Jimmy mentioned this responsibility in the male world again.
Abby did the same duty as Ellie again and again. So when Ellie alone in the wild and all exhausted, finnally fight the last time. Maybe Ellie let her go it’s she finally found her spriit from Joel, her special healing power, to break this ravenge chain, also drop the male society burden on her shoulder.
Anyway this is a really good book, at the end, the author also guide us how to oberserve wolf group in the Yellowstone National Park.
Somehow we almost forgot we have a same origin legends all over the world, a female wolf, I think maybe it’s the day we became a farmer, we left the biological chain, own the sheep and dog belong to us, create a word called property, then wolf became the last thing reminds us the nature, that’s why we hate them for this long.
