The Caveman Rules of Survival by Dawn C. Walton

Author:Dawn C. Walton [Walton, Dawn C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78279-758-6
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2015-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

The other girls don’t have big hips like me which means I am different and there is something wrong with me.

I don’t like football and my dad and brothers do, so there is something wrong with me.

I failed the test, so I must be stupid.

My sister is prettier than me and gets all the attention, so I must be ugly and unattractive.

I believe the rule of needing to be part of the pack really kicks in when you hit puberty. When you add in the “complication” of procreation into the things that the subconscious is responsible for, then your status as a male or a female becomes significant. Your status in the pack is no longer just about your skills and personality but expands to include your ability to help the whole race survive and grow stronger. That’s a lot of pressure when you are a teenager and your hormones are all over the place! This is why the stuff that ends up as rules at this age so often translate into issues of self-esteem and self-worth as an adult.

Why is puberty significant? To understand this you have to remember that your brain is operating on caveman rules of survival. In the caveman days you would be looked after as a child until you were old enough to look after yourself. As a girl, as soon as you reached puberty you would be given a mate, and your job was to breed and keep the clan alive. The better you were at breeding, the more successful you were at attracting a mate, and the higher your status in the clan would be. As a boy, things would also change for you when you reached puberty. You would now be able to join in the hunts. You would be able to compete for seniority in the clan and eventually even have your own clan. Your strength and skills in hunting, and keeping everyone alive, would define your status in the clan.

In the caveman days, status equalled survival. And it still does. Actually it doesn’t, but remember that your brain is still working on The Caveman Rules. As far as your subconscious is concerned, it is important to do everything you can to be part of the pack and to ensure that your status in the pack is as secure as it can be. This means that once you hit puberty, those things that used to be just environmental factors now become about status, and as a result, can lead to rules in the rulebook.

Prejudice, like racism, sexism and judgements based on class, are all born out of the caveman rule about being part of the pack and fitting in. They are born out of a primal need to classify people in such a way as you can easily determine if they will strengthen or weaken the group. There have been extreme examples of this over the years. Probably the most famous example was Hitler and his beliefs in white supremacy. He

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