The Bear essentials

"So I'm taking a walk through my 'back yard' and I find these lost humans who have decided to cut down my forest and build dens for themselves. They have no idea how to live in harmony with nature," says the bear when he returns to the woods.

Let's look at the vocabulary that was used in the article about this bear and see if we can understand the psyche...

Title: "Bear on loose in suburbs of LA", so bears are not supposed to be 'loose', they belong in a zoo?

"Authorities ... have been contending with a wild bear that wandered into a residential area", so there is a contest for space here, and things can either be "wild" or tamed "residential areas". These are also people who are perceived to be "authorised" to do this.

"Authorities shot at the bear with non-lethal rubber pellets in a bid to contain it, and it has since headed back into the wilderness." I though you 'contained' things inside of bottles or cages. Sad that when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail - so if you have a weapon the best thing to do is shoot at something like a lost bear who can't read the signs outside the residential area that clearly state "no bears allowed in the residential areas". Finally the last word is the most telling of all. The bear headed back into the "wilderness" (where it belonged?). Is "the wilderness" not that place where those people in the old testament went when they were lost?

So as humans we hide behind walls for fear of getting "lost" on a "wild" planet we call home.

I find it difficult to believe that a group of "authorities" resembling riot police brandishing rubber bullet guns were somehow authorised to deal with something as sensitive as nature, with it's under-represented animals and fragile symbiotic relationships.